Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <36BA2D08.572C7354@uni-duesseldorf.de> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:28:08 +0100 From: Stipe Tolj Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, Germany X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [de]C-NECCK (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dstritt CC: cygwin Subject: Re: BASH question References: <199902042007.OAA20188@ionet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Is there any way to keep BASH from creating a .bash_history file in my root > dir? yes, if your $HOME environment variable is set to your user's home dir it will create the .bash_history file there and not in your root dir. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows" http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany