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Re: "unset HISTFILESIZE" not working in .bashrc
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: "unset HISTFILESIZE" not working in .bashrc |
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Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:20:47 -0500 |
> Actually, what I want is to prevent writing to the history file
> at all when bash exits. (Not all the time, just in certain cases
> that other logic in .bashrc will be able to detect. Unsetting
> HISTFILESIZE unconditionally was a simplified test case.)
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> Should I unset HISTFILE, or set it to /dev/null, instead of
> trying to mess with HISTFILESIZE?
The "official" way to prevent the history from being written is to unset
HISTFILE.
Chet
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