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Re: [Help-bash] History always appended even though histappend set to of
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] History always appended even though histappend set to off |
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Sun, 8 May 2016 18:41:19 -0400 |
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On 5/7/16 3:11 PM, john smith wrote:
> Anyone?
I haven't looked at it. It's not a good assumption that if histappend
is turned off that the history will always be overwritten. histappend is
a way to override heuristics and force appending, though the documentation
is somewhat misleading there. If you want to make sure the history file
is overwritten, use `history -w'.
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