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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:28:08 +0100
From: Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, 
              Germany
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> Is there any way to keep BASH from creating a .bash_history file in my root
> dir?

yes, if your $HOME environment variable is set to your user's home dir it will
create the .bash_history file there and not in your root dir.

Regards,
Stipe

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Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>

Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows"
http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/

Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany