Re: ksh HISTFILE format

[Han Boetes <han_(_at_)_mijncomputer_(_dot_)_nl>]

Joel Andersson wrote:
> Ksh apparently does not store command history in plaintext, but
> uses some other file format for this. My question: is it
> possible to remove duplicate entries from this file? A simple
> cron job with uniq seems to be out of the question due to this
> non plaintext format.

Another advantage of a plaintext histfile is that it is compatible
with other shells histfile format.

It took quite some time to figure out that I had to run `ksh -l'
instead of `ksh' to avoid ksh overwriting my .history_zsh since
they share the same environmental variable name for the history.



# Han