[NTLUG:Discuss] keeping your bash history.

[Paul Ingendorf]

Do I keep reading this wrong? Is he not looking for a way to save those
history files not obliterate them?

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export HISTFILE=/dev/null
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Geoffrion" <ntlug at rain4us.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] keeping your bash history.


> To keep your bash history from being recorded during a session, one can
> issue the command  'unset HISTFILE' before exiting.
>
> HOWEVER, when one has MULTIPLE terminal windows opened up, only that last
> one to close seems to save its HISTFILE information into the bash history.
>
> Is there a way to force a write to the bash history as one exits each
shell
> so that the entire history of all bash sessions are recorded?   Could this
> be automated in the logout/logoff process?
>
> --
> Richard
>
>