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> On Jan 27, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Denny White wrote:

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> >I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, & can't seem to come

> >up with the answer. Either I put no mention of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE

> >in $HOME/.profile and I don't have a lasting history file of previous

> >commands. Or, I put it in and I do have a history file, but the

> >HISTSIZE setting has no effect. It doesn't change and the file grows

> >and grows. Currently I have it set as shown below to save my command

> >line history:

> >

> >HISTFILE=.ksh_history

> >HISTSIZE="50"

> >

> >I've tried using .ksh_history$$ to have a different file each login,

> >and know I can run a cronjob nightly to clean them up if I want to,

> >but I can't figure out how to make the history turn over just like

> >it's supposed to with the HISTSIZE value without all that other mess.

> >Thanks for any help I can get on this.

> >

> >--

> >

> >Denny White

> >

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:26:20PM -0800, Steve Mayer sez:

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> Have you tried it without the quotes?

>

> HISTSIZE=50

>

> Steve

Yeah, dumbass me, I just answered the same question in another reply.

Should've looked at the rest of the messages. ;) Anyway, yeah, I had

tried it both ways & it still didn't work. Like I said before, why

all of a sudden it started working, I don't know. But it now it works.

Each time I made changes, I tried various ways of getting it to take

effect. I did '. ./.profile' to get the system to reread it, exited

& logged back in, etc. Strange problem but now it's resolved. Thanks

for the help, Steve. 
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