[NTLUG:Discuss] keeping your bash history.

[MadHat]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:18, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> To keep your bash history from being recorded during a session, one can
> issue the command  'unset HISTFILE' before exiting.
> 
> HOWEVER, when one has MULTIPLE terminal windows opened up, only that last
> one to close seems to save its HISTFILE information into the bash history.
> 
> Is there a way to force a write to the bash history as one exits each shell
> so that the entire history of all bash sessions are recorded?   Could this
> be automated in the logout/logoff process?
> 

rm ~/.bash_history && ln -s /dev/null ~/.bash_history


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