David Korn wrote:
> Subject: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] maybe a faq,  but another 
> tcsh->ksh93 migration question (history)
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> > For these things, I prefer to have my shell history *not* be shared with
> > all windows... but each window (or each shell process) to have its own
> > history.
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> The simplest way is to set HISTFILE to a non existant file that can't
> be created, for example
>         HISTFILE=/noexist

... but that doesn't preserve the history after the shell quits... ;-(

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Bye,
Roland

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