ksh history question

2008-01-28 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, can't seem to come up with the answer. Either I put no mention of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE in $HOME/.profile and I don't have a lasting history file of previous commands. Or, I put it in and I do have a

Re: ksh history question

2008-01-28 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:32:00PM +, Jason McIntyre sez: On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:27:26PM -0600, Denny White wrote: I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, can't seem to come up with the answer. Either I put no mention of

Re: ksh history question

2008-01-28 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:27:26PM -0600, Denny White wrote: I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, can't seem to come up with the answer. Either I put no mention of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE in $HOME/.profile and I don't have a lasting history file of previous commands. Or, I put it in

Re: ksh history question

2008-01-28 Thread Steve Mayer
Have you tried it without the quotes? HISTSIZE=50 Steve On Jan 27, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Denny White wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, can't seem to come up with the answer. Either I put no mention of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE in

Re: ksh history question

2008-01-28 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
HISTFILE=.ksh_history HISTSIZE=50 Try it without double quotes on HISTSIZE value; and remember to export them. -- Thanks, Jordi Espasa Clofent

Re: ksh history question

2008-01-28 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:56:56PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent sez: HISTFILE=.ksh_history HISTSIZE=50 Try it without double quotes on HISTSIZE value; and remember to export them. -- Thanks, Jordi Espasa Clofent Thanks for the reply,

Re: ksh history question

2008-01-28 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 27, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Denny White wrote: I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, can't seem to come up with the answer. Either I put no mention of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE in $HOME/.profile and I don't have a lasting history file of