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:
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> 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?
>