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brianegge
Asked: 2009-11-26 22:30:02 +0800 CST

Is it possible to have a unique .bash_history file per host?

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My home directory is mounted on an NFS mount. The commands I use on one machine are usually quite different to those on another. Is it possible to have easy host write to it's own history file?

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    It certainly is. You just have to change the name of your history file on each host. In your .bash_profile put something like:

    export HISTFILE="${HOME}/.bash_history.`hostname`"
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  2. There is the environment variable HISTFILE, which controls where the history file is. You could try to create a login script that resets HISTFILE according to your hostname/IP.

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