If you skip the dash in doing an su then your history file is your origional history file. If you use the dash then the history is whereever the user's history you su'ed to. <BR><BR>Some systems ...

For many users who get started with the command line in Linux, there’s a good chance they’re using Bourne Again Shell, or Bash. Bash is the default shell on Mac OS X, and Windows users can use Bash ...

This might be a little OT for all of you, but it’s an interesting piece nonetheless. Allan Odgaard of TextMate put together an interesting little piece about the bash shell history system including ...