I forgot to mention but I also added

set -o history

On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 11:03:34 AM UTC-7, tuxracer wrote:

Hello,

Every time I use up and down arrow keys to get previously issued command, I get garbage "l^&($" I edited .bashrc in /root and added

HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history HISTFILESIZE=500 HISTSIZE=500

but it failed. How do I enable .bash_history in Void Linux?