it is not applied the comment(#)for histsize

[violetish]

I wanna disable the histsize at the /etc/profile .

so i enabled the comment line like:

#HISTSIZE=1000


i know that # tag is handling the comment line, so it is same as HISTSIZE=0. Isn't it?

only HISTSIZE=0 is applied the actually, #HISTSIZE=1000 is continuously worked.

why # is not activated? is there a default value existing the histsize?

[MartinR]

Commenting out an assignment is not the same as setting it to zero. If you do

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$ x=40
$ echo $x
$ #x=99
$ echo $x

you would expect to see "40" on both occasions. Likewise if you simply comment out #HISTSIZE=1000 the default will apply, which for BASH 4.2 is 500.

[violetish]

Commenting out an assignment is not the same as setting it to zero. If you do

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$ x=40
$ echo $x
$ #x=99
$ echo $x

you would expect to see "40" on both occasions. Likewise if you simply comment out #HISTSIZE=1000 the default will apply, which for BASH 4.2 is 500.

Thank you Martin. I understand it.