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- From: shutton@fokker.union.indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton)
- Subject: Re: BASH history question
- In-Reply-To: ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu's message of Sun, 13 Dec 92 17:42:22 EST
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:29:14 GMT
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- Larry Stern writes:
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- I have been trying to set my history file size in BASH, with no success.
- I put 'set histfilesize=50' and designated the history file in my profile
- put this doesn't seem to do it. What is the correct syntax?
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- export HISTFILESIZE=50
- export HISTORY=50 #(or however much you want saved while on-line
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- Case sensitivity problem.
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- -S
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