Subject: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] maybe a faq, but another tcsh->ksh93
migration question (history)
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> For these things, I prefer to have my shell history *not* be shared with
> all windows... but each window (or each shell process) to have its own
> history.
>
> Is there a way I can get this behavior with ksh93, instead of the
> default "all windows share a common history file" behavior? (Note: as a
> consequence of this, I don't care if I don't have history saved to a
> file -- in fact I prefer it *not* to be.)
>
> Thanks.
>
The simplest way is to set HISTFILE to a non existant file that can't
be created, for example
HISTFILE=/noexist
David Korn
dgk at research.att.com