Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Note, this was written in 1990 or so, when ksh was a very new toy. It > has been working untouched for about 15 years, and the only thing > changed is that on exit I now shred, purge, or at least delete the file > for security. The world is a scarier place now. :-( Nice script. Have a look at these guys on your box though, if you are using KDE and I think Gnome too. ~/.recently-used.xbel <--- eye opener ~/.recently-used ~/.thumbnails/normal/* ~/.thumbnails/large/* I found you can set ~/.bash_history to be an empty ro file and inside a session the history still works, for xterm-type things anyway. -Andy
