Re: .sh_history problem

[Kai Gro�johann]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Tom Roche wrote:

> So, although 'unset' doesn't make .sh_history, or its successor, go
> away upon _utterance_, it does appear to make it go away upon
> _exit_-- which IIRC is better than what we had, and mostly solves
> the problem of the ever-growing .sh_history (except for very long
> tramp sessions).  (Note that .history is made by my csh session, not
> ksh.)

What happens when you do it the second time?  Do you then get large
.sh_history files, too?  I'd suppose that once you delete the
.sh_history file and then make sure that ksh doesn't save it again,
Bob would be your uncle.

kai
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