that makes it awkward to use across sessions (defeating the point of the file)
even though it does not appear to have options regarding this, bash does have a crap ton of settings regarding history handling whatever the route, i would prefer if ksh didn't have new flags added to it, but instead sensible behavior by default On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Claus Assmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:03:54PM +0200, lilit-aibolit wrote: > >> > export HISTFILE=~/.sh_history > >> Because last time I tried, it was unusable if you ran more than two >> session concurently, as both shell would use the same file directly > > Maybe try something like this? > > HISTFILE=${HOME%/}/.ksh_hist.$$

