Chet Ramey wrote:
> HISTFILESIZE doesn't exist until bash tries to load the history
> list from the history file (taken from $HISTFILE). At that point,
> if it doesn't have a value, it's set to $HISTSIZE. That doesn't
> happen until after the startup files are read, as you guessed.
>
> If you w
bashrc
had been read. I then entered ". .bashrc" so that .bashrc would
be read again, and this time the unset worked as expected.
Should I be using some other method to unset HISTFILESIZE?
The xterm shows:
this is .bashrc
[per...@fbsd61 /usr/home/perryh]$ echo $HISTFILESIZE
500
[per...@
