Where is history file?

[babeo]

Hi all<br><br>1) I am looking for the history file that contains the commands entered on Sun Solaris. I can use ESC + k to retrieve it in ksh or run the HISTORY command to see what command I used before, but I am unable to find where the file locates (I already check the .sh_history and even .cshrc, but the commands are different when I run history command ?!)<br><br>2) The file can be created with different name provide it is specified in the .profile , isn't it?<br><br>Thanks for your help

 

[Guest_imported]

Yes, you can put an entry like export HISTFILE={filename} in your .profile or in .cshrc or .kshrc and this will be your new history file. <p>Jon Zimmer<br><a href=mailto:b0rg@pcgeek.net>b0rg@pcgeek.net</a><br><a href=

http://www.aetea.com>

Aetea Information Technology</a><br>The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.<br>

 

[MikeLacey]

babeo,<br><br>It actually *is* in the .sh_history file (or $HISTFILE, as Jon says) but your commands don't get there straight away, the shell seems to write them out when it has a minute to itself.<br><br>I've noticed that, when running ksh in two windows, I can force my current window to pick up what's in the .sh_history file (from the other window) with Ctrl-C, I've not seen that documented anywhere though.<br> <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>

 

[babeo]

Thanks Jon and Mike<br><br>However, I still don't get it, here is the &quot;clue&quot;, I enter whole bunch of letters q,r,s,t,u,v and check in order below:<br><br>1) wrdbi1% history<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;167&nbsp;&nbsp;q<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;168&nbsp;&nbsp;r<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;169&nbsp;&nbsp;s<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;170&nbsp;&nbsp;t<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;171&nbsp;&nbsp;u<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;172&nbsp;&nbsp;v<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;173&nbsp;&nbsp;history<br><br>2) wrdbi1% tail .sh_history<br>rm 2003*<br>rm 2103*<br>rm 2203* 2303* 2403*<br>rm 2503* 2603* 2703* 2803* 2903* 3003*<br>ls 0703* 0803* 0903*<br>rm 0703* 0803* 0903*<br>ls -la¦more<br>more .sh_history<br>exit<br><br>I'm sure I don't see my commands stored in .sh_history even the commands I entered a few days ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;And in .profile, I don't see the setup for history file, that's fine, however, there must be a file stores the online commands, but I could not find where is it!<br><br>Thanks if you have any clue

 

[MikeLacey]

is your HISTFILE env var set? type the command 'env' <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>

 

[babeo]

Hi Mike<br><br>No, there is not the setup for HISTFILE.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, is it true that the commands are attached in the memmory and until the user logs out and logs in again, then those commands will be updated in the .sh_history?&nbsp;&nbsp;This is due to many persons log in using the same id, which causes it can not update the file?

 

[MikeLacey]

try this in the .profile<br><br>export HISTFILE=~/.sh_history.$$<br><br>that will give each login under that id its own history file - you have to remember to delete them after a while though - or you will get quite a few. (the $$ is the current process id by the way) <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>

 

[ami123]

Try this out it works in my case<br><br>$ export HISTFILE=/tmp/ami1234<br>$ ksh -o vi<br>$ lsdsd<br>ksh: lsdsd:&nbsp;&nbsp;not found<br>$ abracadabra<br>ksh: abracadabra:&nbsp;&nbsp;not found<br><br>$ tail -2 /tmp/ami1234<br>lsdsd<br>abracadabra<br><br>The HISTFILE consists of the .kshrc output along with the history.<br><br>Adios <p> amit<br><a href=mailto: crazy_indian@mailcity.com> crazy_indian@mailcity.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>to bug is human to debug devine

 

[Guest_imported]

If you run more than one login session at a time (I.e., more than one <i>xterm</i> on an X windows workstation) you may want to maintain a seperate history file for each login session. Do it this way:<br>in your <i>.profile</i><br><br><i>export HISTFILE=~/.hist$$<i><br># Something like what Mike put up before <br># It doesn't have to be called .hist, it could be any name you want.<br><br>This creates a history file whose name begins with <b>.hist</b> and ends with a number that is essentially guaranteed to be unique.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes this will create a lot of stray history files , but you can clean these up through a cron job like this:<br><br><i>0 2 * * * rm ~/.hist*</i><br><br>that will remove all history files in ~'s directory everyday at 2 A.M.<br><br>If you wanted to get rid of all of them you could use a <i>find</i> command instead of <i>rm</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;like this:<br><br><i>0 2 * * * find / -name &quot;.hist*&quot; -exec rm {} \;</i> <p>Jon Zimmer<br><a href=mailto:b0rg@pcgeek.net>b0rg@pcgeek.net</a><br><a href=

http://www.aetea.com>

Aetea Information Technology</a><br>The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.<br>

 

[babeo]

Thank you very much every body.&nbsp;&nbsp;It helps.

 

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