How to increase max size of .bash_history

Bash history size is specified in HISTSIZE environment variable ,So if you want to increase the size of history ,you have to increase the value of HISTSIZE .

To know the current size :

echo $HISTSIZE && echo $HISTFILESIZE

To increase the size to 10000 :

echo -e 'export HISTSIZE=10000 nexport HISTFILESIZE=10000' >>~/.bash_profile
echo -e 'export HISTSIZE=10000 nexport HISTFILESIZE=10000' >>/etc/profile

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