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- From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
- Subject: ksh history file size
- Organization: SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
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- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 16:40:47 EDT
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- According to the manual (and other reference books I've been reading)
- the environment variable HISTSIZE determines how many commands are stored
- in the file indicated by HISTFILE ... default is 128 ... well, as a test I
- put mine down to 20 (because I started thinking the HISTFILE was growing
- too large, > 200k) ... the manual states that ksh will truncate the
- HISTFILE down so that HISTSIZE commands are retrievable ... well, this
- doesn't appear to be the case ... can anyone explain this to me?
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