[geeks] find - having a senior moment

Doug McLaren dougmc at frenzied.us
Tue Jan 22 18:48:57 CST 2008


On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:40:25PM -0600, Brian Dunbar wrote:
| Doug McLaren wrote:
| > 
| > Personally, I have a setup where each shell's history is kept by PID
| > in a directory, and I have a perl script that takes these lists, keeps
| > only the most recent version of duplicates and keeps all my history
| > forever, and keeps the most recent 1000 lines to be loaded into each
| > shell at startup ...
| > 
| > So, it looks like I've got every command line I've ever typed on my
| > own machines going back to 1995 :)  Saves lots of time ...
| > 
| 
| That would be keen.  Is that script online?

It is now.

   http://mclarenhome.com/~dougmc/history-saver/

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Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzied.us



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