I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 Server Edition. The first thing I noticed is that my bash history seems to be broken. When I press the up arrow I should be able to view my recent commands, however I simply get a ^[[A character instead. Strangely, bash history works perfectly when I am logged in as root, but it does not work when I am logged in as an user.
1 Answer
It might be that the ~/.bash_history
file is owned by root. If this is the case use chown
as root to give the ownership to yourself.
sudo chown YourUserName ~/.bash_history
dash
)? See Arrow keys, tab-complete not workinguseradd
usessh
as the default, andadduser
usesbash
as the default.