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Re: History Files


From: arboi () BIGFOOT COM (Michel Arboi)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:21:46 +0200


Gerardo <gere () MAILROOM COM> writes:

Or he could just type "unset HISTFILE" and bye bye, logs

The history file is written when bash exits. The simplest way not to
disable it is to kill the shell ("kill -9 $$" instead of "exit")

I suspect that some versions of ksh write their history "on the fly".


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