On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:38:44AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Is there a way I can get this behavior with ksh93, instead of the > default "all windows share a common history file" behavior? (Note: as a > consequence of this, I don't care if I don't have history saved to a > file -- in fact I prefer it *not* to be.)
All you have to do is set HISTFILE to a value that is unique for each shell process. E.g.: [[ -z "$HISTFILE" || ! -w "$HISTFILE" ]] && export HISTFILE=/tmp/.ksh_hist.$$ Sprinkle mktemp(1), $TMPDIR, $USER/LOGNAME, $HOME, ... as you desire. (There used to be a bug w.r.t. HISTFILE where you had to exec $SHELL again before it would take effect, but this has been fixed. FWIW I hated that bug.) Nico --
