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[Alexander Sashnov <1340511@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, If I comment out all mentions of HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in my
.bashrc and .profile I get

$ wc -l .bash_history 
500 .bash_history

(after I shorted it to 490 lines and did some activity).

All right, that means we should read our .bashrc carefully.

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Title:
  man page contains wrong default history size

Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  man page contains wrong default history size

  Steps to reproduce:

  1.    $ man bash

  2.   Search for HISTSIZE  (press   /    then type HISTSIZE  and press
  ENTER)

  Actual result:

  Man page contains the text:

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    HISTSIZE
                The number of commands to remember in the command history (see HISTORY below).  The default value is 500.
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Expected result

  The default value is 2000.

  Additional information:

  $ wc -l ~/.bash_history
  2000 /home/user/.bash_history

  $ grep HISTFILESIZE ~/.bashrc
  HISTFILESIZE=2000

  
  $ apt-get source bash
  $ cd bash-4.2/
  $ grep -nr HISTFILESIZE .
  ./debian/skel.bashrc:20:HISTFILESIZE=2000

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: bash 4.2-5ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-19.33-generic 3.11.10.5
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-19-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Jul 11 11:41:58 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-18 (143 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta i386 (20130926)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: bash
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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