.history$$ files for ksh (was Re: Questions from a new user (SUMMARY))

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <226 at ssbn.WLK.COM> bill at ssbn.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) writes:
|>In article <11300001 at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> hood at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
|>>
|>>A very simple solution to the problem of multiple history files is to
|>>
|>>	HISTFILE=$HOME/.history$$
|>>
|>>Works for me...
|>>
|>>Emmet P. Gray		US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
|>
|>Once again a tip of the hat to Emmet for a useful and welcome contribution.
|>I knew there was some way to do it but never read enough to know how.  This
|>is handy, Thanks!
|>
|>Not to be a nit picker, but how do you get rid of them when you log out?
[...]

Well you could stick this line in your .profile:

trap 'rm -f ~/.history$$"' 0

This should work...

-Lenny

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