Re: If $HISTFILE is set to /dev/null and you execute more commands than $HISTFILESIZE, /dev/null is deleted.

[Andreas Schwab]

Jonathan Hankins <jhankins@homewood.k12.al.us> writes:

> Aside from the case where the user running bash is root, I think it's not
> uncommon for users to have group write access to a variety of things in
> /dev.

Rename or delete requires write access to the containing directory.

Andreas.

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