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Old 01-19-2009
Change .bash_history to another one

we need the help to change .bash_histroy file in root ,(i.e) we want to save the histroy for .temp.txt for permenently. how to do??

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Old 01-20-2009
Do you mean save a copy of the history file as another name? For root, logon as root:
Code:
cp .bash_history  temp.txt

 
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