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19.9 Status and History

To enable the saving of command line histories, you must define a history filename:

Status History_Filename ".ved-history"

In this example, the name of the history filename is set to an invisible file in the current directory. If you wish to have global histories for a user, then use a command line like:

Status History_Filename " /.ved-history"
.

The filename must be enclosed in matching delimters.

By default, history files are not automatically created. If, when trying to save the current history (this means that you have set the history_filename), and the file does not exist, it will not be created. The option:

Status History_Create True

will cause history files to be created whether they exist or not. A common strategy is leave this option set to ``False'' and then create an empty file in selected directories with a command like:

touch .ved-history
.

To create status files, you must specify a directory name:

Status Status_Dir ".ved-status"

is an example. Like history files, this directory must exist to enable the generation of status file. This filename must be enclosed in matching delimiters.

For more information on status and history saving, see Chapter 17.


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2004-05-02