Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!gatech!ulysses!cjc From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs]) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Questions from a new user (SUMMARY) Summary: killing files when logging out Keywords: ksh history Message-ID: <10504@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 11 Aug 88 12:53:07 GMT References: <620@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM> <11300001@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <226@ssbn.WLK.COM> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 18 In article <226@ssbn.WLK.COM>, bill@ssbn.UUCP writes: Referring to ksh history files with unique names... > > Not to be a nit picker, but how do you get rid of them when you log out? Since .profile is only read when logging in, not with every invocation - that's what ENV is for, put something like this in your .profile: ... ... HISTFILE=$HOME/.kshistory$$ /bin/ksh rm .kshistory$$ -- -------- Christopher J. Calabrese AT&T Bell Laboratories ulysses!cjc