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From: kayvan@mrspoc.transact.com (Kayvan Sylvan)
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Date: 8 Sep 89 18:06:00 GMT
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Jeff Sparkes writes:
> 
> Are there any plans for supporting history among multi shells on the
> same machine?  ksh will write each command to the history file, and
> then re-read it.  In bash, whoever writes the file last (most
> recently) gets to put their entire history in.
> 

I handle this by doing this in my .bash_profile:

mytty=`/bin/tty`
export HISTFILE=~/.bash_hist/`echo $mytty | sed 'sx/dev/ttyxx'`

That way, each shell has a separate hisory file.

			---Kayvan

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