diff --git a/roles/bash/files/profile b/roles/bash/files/profile
index f41f486..8ef875a 100644
--- a/roles/bash/files/profile
+++ b/roles/bash/files/profile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ export LANGUAGE="en_US"
 export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
 export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
 export LESS="-i -j.49 -M -R -z-2"
-export LESSHISTFILE="$XDG_CACHE_HOME/less/history"
+export LESSHISTFILE="$XDG_DATA_HOME/less/history"
 export LESSHISTSIZE=1000
 export LOCAL_CONFIG="$HOME/.local/etc"
 export LOCAL_PREFIX="/usr/local"
diff --git a/roles/bash/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bash/tasks/main.yml
index c1ad803..68395dd 100644
--- a/roles/bash/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bash/tasks/main.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
       - bash_logout
       - profile
 
-- name: Create the bash cache and config directories
+- name: Ensure existence of directories used in bashrc
   file:
       path: "{{ item }}"
       state: directory
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
       - "~/.cache/bash"
       - "~/.config/bash"
       - "~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions"
+      - "~/.local/share/less"
 
 - name: Deploy bash profile
   file: