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