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I added a line to ~/.bashrc file which appends all issued commands to ~/.bash_eternal_history file in a date directory history-number command format, such as:

 2019-01-08.23:59:32 /home/sport/Desktop 745 pwd

I need a reverse-i-search feature to bring up commands from my custom history file ~/.bash_eternal_history searching key words and cycle through each result one by one using up or down keys

How can I achieve that?

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Reset to default
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This, from man bash:

 HISTFILE The name of the file in which command history is saved (see HISTORY below). The default value is ~/.bash_history. If unset, the command history is not saved when a shell exits. HISTFILESIZE The maximum number of lines contained in the history file. When this variable is assigned a value, the history file is truncated, if necessary, to contain no more than that number of lines by remov‐ ing the oldest entries. The history file is also truncated to this size after writing it when a shell exits. If the value is 0, the history file is truncated to zero size. Non-numeric values and numeric values less than zero inhibit truncation. The shell sets the default value to the value of HISTSIZE after reading any startup files.
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  • Thank you for your answer. I didn't know that trick, I can use it as a last resort. But I thought of some awk, grep, sed etc. functions triggered by up or down keys. Commented Jan 9, 2019 at 10:07

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