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Use bash history file from old machine when setting up new machine?

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I love my bash history. Sometimes I've issued really long commands and I really depend on my bash history to get them back quickly. I've increased my history size with:

HISTSIZE=100000
HISTFILESIZE=200000

in my .bashrc

I also have aliases:

alias h='history | tail'
alias hg='history | grep'

which allow me to do h and hg some_text which is really handy

My question is: Can I move this history file to a new machine? For instance my machine recently crashed and I had to rebuild it. Would I have any issues dropping a different .history file in, possibly replacing the one already there. Do I need to make sure to replace it or can I actually append two history files together without issue?


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