Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!icus!lenny
From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: .history$$ files for ksh (was Re: Questions from a new user (SUMMARY))
Keywords: ksh history
Message-ID: <465@icus.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 88 22:45:36 GMT
References: <620@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM> <11300001@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <226@ssbn.WLK.COM>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
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In article <226@ssbn.WLK.COM> bill@ssbn.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) writes:
|>In article <11300001@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> hood@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
|>>
|>>A very simple solution to the problem of multiple history files is to
|>>
|>>	HISTFILE=$HOME/.history$$
|>>
|>>Works for me...
|>>
|>>Emmet P. Gray		US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
|>
|>Once again a tip of the hat to Emmet for a useful and welcome contribution.
|>I knew there was some way to do it but never read enough to know how.  This
|>is handy, Thanks!
|>
|>Not to be a nit picker, but how do you get rid of them when you log out?
[...]

Well you could stick this line in your .profile:

trap 'rm -f ~/.history$$"' 0

This should work...

-Lenny

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