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From: toneyc@ut-emx.uucp (toney cassel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: how do you limit HISTFILE size in ksh?
Summary: Ksh HISTFILE size limit
Keywords: ksh, history
Message-ID: <50361@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 11 Jun 91 23:25:05 GMT
Followup-To: toneyc@seu.UUCP
Distribution: comp.unix.questions
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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I have recently changed my login shell to ksh. I have almost everything
worked out the way I want it, except this silly .history file. We're 
running HP-UX 7.0. The applicable section of my .kshrc file is as follows:

# Set history variables:
HISTFILE=$HOME/.history
HISTSIZE=30

Now why does my history file exceed 30 entries? My event number has 
incremented since the day I changed shells. It has not reset to 1 or
30 as I would expect it too.

Any help would be appreciatd - thank you!

G'Day,
Toney...