From: bporter AT NETdelivery DOT com (Brad Porter) Subject: RE: RE: BASH history 1 Dec 1998 00:30:20 -0800 Message-ID: <919A9FA8B3CCD011AEBA0060971BB41E4E0B3B.cygnus.gnu-win32@berlin.Netdelivery> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "'mvoss AT kuttig DOT com'" , Anders Norlander Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com This tells you that you can set HISTFILE= To prevent its creation in your root directory... Brad Porter Senior Software Developer NETdelivery Corporation 4720 Walnut, Suite 100 Boulder, CO 80301 Phone: 303-245-7313 Fax: 303-245-0301 mailto:bporter AT netdelivery DOT com ... our Web site: www.netdelivery.com -----Original Message----- From: mvoss AT kuttig DOT com [mailto:mvoss AT kuttig DOT com] Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 3:23 AM To: Anders Norlander Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: RE: BASH history V>Here's my Question: V>>How can I prevent BASH from creating this file in my root directory V>>(C:\)? A>You can avoid it completely by setting HISTFILE=/dev/null in you A>.bashrc file. Yeah, but when I quit bash, I won't have the history the next time I start it, right? But it is an option. Thanks. A>Anders Norlander Regards, Moritz Voss - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".