I noticed there's no way to save the current GDB command history to some specified file. Bash can do that with "history -w ~/foohistory". Maybe gdb could have a "save history", as we already have the "save" prefix. We have "set history xxx", and "show commands". I bet the latter would be more discoverable if called "show history" or plain "history", as in bash. Speaking of which, bash's "history" command allows several other manipulations of history files: $ help history history: history [-c] [-d offset] [n] or history -anrw [filename] or history -ps arg [arg...] Display or manipulate the history list. Display the history list with line numbers, prefixing each modified entry with a `*'. An argument of N lists only the last N entries. Options: -c clear the history list by deleting all of the entries -d offset delete the history entry at offset OFFSET. -a append history lines from this session to the history file -n read all history lines not already read from the history file -r read the history file and append the contents to the history list -w write the current history to the history file and append them to the history list -p perform history expansion on each ARG and display the result without storing it in the history list -s append the ARGs to the history list as a single entry If FILENAME is given, it is used as the history file. Otherwise, if $HISTFILE has a value, that is used, else ~/.bash_history. If the $HISTTIMEFORMAT variable is set and not null, its value is used as a format string for strftime(3) to print the time stamp associated with each displayed history entry. No time stamps are printed otherwise. Exit Status: Returns success unless an invalid option is given or an error occurs. An idea would be to add a similar "history" command that models closely from bash's.