bash History on F7

[Robin Laing]

Andy Green wrote:
> 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/*
> 

Holly crap.  That is very interesting.  Not something that I really 
wanted to see.

> 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
> 

I guess there are more files to deal with for privacy and security. 
Time to encrypt some of these by default.  RFE time.

-- 
Robin Laing