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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: history/savehist variables in csh
Message-ID: <14660006@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 89 02:22:36 GMT
References: <345@shapetc.UUCP>
Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino
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/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / ec@shapetc.UUCP (Enrico Chiarucci) /  5:07 am  Feb 21, 1989 /

In my .login file I have the following lines (in a more or less vanilla
Sun-2 flavour of unix):

	set history=128
	set savehist=16
	source -h ~/.history

wishing to keep 128 commands in the history file, but to save only 16 of
them across login sessions.

Upon logging in, however, I consistently get 32 commands preserved from
the previous session.

enrico
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Are the second 16 of the 32 commands duplicates of the first 16?  I believe
the savehist feature automatically inserts the last 16 commands into your
history stack and your invocation of "source -h" adds them in again.

 Michael