Append the following two lines to the .bash_profile and relogin to the bash shell again to see the change. In this example, only 450 command will be stored in the bash history.
# vi ~/.bash_profile HISTSIZE=450 HISTFILESIZE=450
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Hack 55. Control the total number of lines in the history using HISTSIZE
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