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By Vivek Gite @ cyberciti.biz<\/a><\/p>\n

How do I display shell command history with date and time under UNIX or Linux operating systems?<\/p>\n

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:
\n
\n$ HISTTIMEFORMAT=\"%d\/%m\/%y %T \"
\n<\/code>
\nOR
\n
\n$ echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT=\"%d\/%m\/%y %T \"' >> ~\/.bash_profile<\/code>
\nWhere,
\n%d – Day
\n%m – Month
\n%y – Year
\n%T – Time
\nTo see history type
\n
\n$ history
\n<\/code>
\nSample outputs:<\/p>\n

….
\n..
\n 986 11\/03\/10 04:31:36 memcached-tool 10.10.28.22:11211 stats
\n 987 11\/03\/10 04:31:36 w
\n 988 11\/03\/10 04:31:37 iostat
\n 989 11\/03\/10 04:31:37 top
\n 990 11\/03\/10 04:31:37 at
\n 991 11\/03\/10 04:31:38 atop
\n 992 11\/03\/10 04:31:40 collectl
\n 993 11\/03\/10 04:31:41 grep CPU \/proc\/cpuinfo
\n 994 11\/03\/10 04:31:45 vmstat 3 100
\n 995 11\/03\/10 04:31:55 sar -W -f \/var\/log\/sa\/sa12
\n….
\n..<\/p>\n

Nice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Vivek Gite @ cyberciti.biz How do I display shell command history with date and time under UNIX or Linux operating systems? 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: $… <\/p>\n

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