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From: bet@ORION.MC.DUKE.EDU (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: History, actually not a bug, but a documentation suggestion
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Date: 1 Aug 89 12:25:53 GMT
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>  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.

Sure enough, that is importantly simpler. Thanks!

Could some mention of one or another of these hacks be added to the
documentation?

-Bennett
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu