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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: BASH history question
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:45:41 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- In article <1992Dec13.174222.15038@newstand.syr.edu> ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
- >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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- HISTFILESIZE=50
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- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
- -- Arthur Schlesinger
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- Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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