Re: bash history: saving to and restoring from different file

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From: S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:01

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, jellybean stonerfish wrote:
> From man bash

Thanks. Unfortunately the man page does not give the exact 
moment in a bash session the history is restored from or saved 
to the file. Can be quite helpful information.

> js@blackbox:~$ HISTFILE=/home/js/filename
> js@blackbox:~$ echo $HISTFILE
> /home/js/filename
> js@blackbox:~$ exit

Right. But this is manual intervention. I guess I need to 
clarify that my question is how to do it automatically, i.e. 
just seconds after the history is restored from $HISTFILE 
pointing the file A, $HISTFILE should automatically change to 
file B.

> HISTFILE=filename
> to you .bash_logout

Thanks. But there are 2 issues with this approach:

- Will the history saving happen before or after .bash_logout 
executed?

- That does not help when I use "history -a" in my shell, which 
I do sometime and I am planning to do more often (automated).

Any other idea?

Thanks!

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