Re: [9fans] Re: Perl5 & kenji arisawa's perl question

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@clark.net>]

heck, i've got 7 years and 1/4 million lines of history. ;-)
i think that's the real utility of history. since rc lets
you do fairly complicated things on the command line,
sometimes the history is the only way to drege up the
code you wrote a couple of months^wdays ago.

erik

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i have to say that although i get along with the plan 9 way quite
happily, i do have a sneaking regret for the rc history file that was
provided with unix rc. i never deleted it, which meant that if vaguely
remembered a slightly contorted ad hoc rc script that i'd typed some
months back, i could always find it (NFS file appending bugs
permitting...)

at the end of my last job the history file contained about 70,000
commands, if i remember rightly...

  rog.