diff --git a/Base/usr/share/man/man7/Shell-vars.md b/Base/usr/share/man/man7/Shell-vars.md
index d5a653eff0d..cce5fc7457a 100644
--- a/Base/usr/share/man/man7/Shell-vars.md
+++ b/Base/usr/share/man/man7/Shell-vars.md
@@ -15,10 +15,16 @@ Such variables can be changed or set by the user to tweak how the shell presents
 
 The value of this variable is used to join lists or split strings into lists, its default value is a newline (`\\n`).
 
+2. History
+
+`HISTFILE` (environment)
+
+The value of this variable is used as the Shell's history file path, both for reading history at startup and writing history on exit.
+Its default value is `~/.history`.
 
 ## Visual
 
-2. Prompting
+1. Prompting
 
 `PROMPT` (environment)
 
@@ -30,8 +36,6 @@ The value of this variable is used to generate a prompt, the following escape se
 
 Any other escaped character shall be ignored.
 
-
 `PROMPT_EOL_MARK` (environment)
 
 The value of this variable is used to denote the ends of partial lines (lines with no newline), its default value is '%'.
-
diff --git a/Shell/Shell.cpp b/Shell/Shell.cpp
index 05fe1f66a69..6ab017e962f 100644
--- a/Shell/Shell.cpp
+++ b/Shell/Shell.cpp
@@ -960,10 +960,9 @@ void Shell::block_on_job(RefPtr<Job> job)
 
 String Shell::get_history_path()
 {
-    StringBuilder builder;
-    builder.append(home);
-    builder.append("/.history");
-    return builder.to_string();
+    if (auto histfile = getenv("HISTFILE"))
+        return { histfile };
+    return String::formatted("{}/.history", home);
 }
 
 String Shell::escape_token(const String& token)