losing HISTFILE

losing HISTFILE

[Timothy J. Luoma]

under 2.6-beta1:

through no one's fault but my own, I keep losing my history file  
(usually happens when I start a shell and then abort it before it  
gets going).

Often I have another shell running, which seems to remember the  
full history, even though the file itself is gone.

Is there a way I can dump the history into a new file?? Before you  
say "use the history command!", I tried, and it only gives me the  
history which the current shell has, rather than the history all the  
way down to event #1

thanks

TjL
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Timothy J. Luoma 	            <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>  
NeXT 3.2 m68k		               Another convert to the Z-Shell
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Re: losing HISTFILE

[Timothy J. Luoma]

	Forwarded message from "Karl E. Vogel" :

	   Try
		fc -ln 1 | grep -v "fc -ln" > whatever
	
My thanks to Karl Vogel for the answer above.

TjL
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Timothy J. Luoma 	            <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>  
NeXT 3.2 m68k		               Another convert to the Z-Shell
MIME & NeXTMail OK but remember I'm only using PPP, so big = trouble
"If I  understood the man page, I wouldn't have asked the question."