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From: molenda@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Jason S. Molenda)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: History, actually not a bug, but a documentation suggestion
Message-ID: <14863@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 31 Jul 89 20:18:06 GMT
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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bet@ORION.MC.DUKE.EDU (Bennett Todd) writes:

>	(1) Create a directory "~/.bash-histories" (for example)
>	(2) Add to .bashrc the incantation:
>	    	HISTFILE=~/.bash-histories/$$
>	    (making sure of course that .bashrc is sourced from
>	    .profile).
>	(3) Add to .bash_logout the following:
>	    	rm ~/.bash-histories/*

>Far out! Now *everybody* can be happy!

  even easier is to create a file '~/.bash_history', put the line
HISTFILE=~/.bash_history in your .bashrc file and then chmod the
file to 444 (-r--r--r--) and bash won't be able to write to the
file so your history will not be recorded.

>-Bennett
>bet@orion.mc.duke.edu

Jason molenda, molenda@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu