Friday, August 12, 2011

Bash History: Display Date And Time For Each Command

How do I display shell command history with date and time under Linux OS?

If the HISTTIMEFORMAT is set, the time stamp information associated with each history entry is written to the history file, marked with the history comment character. Defining the environment variable as follows:
$ HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%d/%m/%y %T “
OR
echo ‘export HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%d/%m/%y %T “‘ >> ~/.bash_profile

Where,
%d – Day
%m – Month
%y – Year
%T – Time

To see history type

# history

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