Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: History not starting from 1 Message-ID: <543@hqda-ai.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 18:15:03 EST Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.543 Posted: Sat Dec 5 18:15:03 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 20:09:31 EST References: <616@umbc3.UMD.EDU> Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon Lines: 19 Summary: Keeping history from previous sessions. In article <616@umbc3.UMD.EDU>, dipto@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Dipto Chakravarty) writes: > Every time I start up a shell or login, the history number should > begin with a one. However, in my case I get 22% as the starting > number; from there on it starts incrementing. There may be a silly > reason which I am unable to see. Any insight ? The Sun version of csh includes the ability to save history from previous sessions. On logout, some number ($savehist) of commands are saved in a file ~/.history. When csh is started, it looks for this file, and reloads from it. Delete ~/.history, and your history numbers will start again at 1. Alternatively, if you wish, set $savehist in your .login, and you can carry over the last 'n' commands from one login session to the next. -- David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900 UUCP: *!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin ARPA: ai01@hios-pent.arpa