--- a/.bashrc	Thu Aug 18 12:35:16 2016 -0400
+++ b/.bashrc	Thu Aug 18 12:46:06 2016 -0400
@@ -50,6 +50,24 @@
     ;;
 esac
 
+# Set some friendly options for history
+# Append to ~/.bash_history, don't overwrite it
+shopt -s histappend
+# Set the history a bit larger, both on disk and in memory
+export HISTFILESIZE=10000
+export HISTSIZE=10000
+# Ignore lines starting with a space, and duplicates of the previous command;
+# also, if a line is a dupe from earlier history, remove the previous line
+# entirely
+export HISTCONTROL='ignoreboth:erasedups'
+# Ignore some commonly used and not noteworthy commands
+export HISTIGNORE='bg:fg:history:ret:keys'
+# Put a timestamp on history lines
+export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '
+# Fold multi-line commands into a single line
+# This seems to be 'on' in many places already, but let's make sure
+shopt -s cmdhist
+
 #
 # Paths
 #