Timestamping your bash_history

Owned by Mitch Saba
Last updated: Jan 13, 2022 by Dan Jakubiak
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This is useful when trying to figure out what was done when. You can configure your profile to timestamp the bash_history.

To add a timestamp, simply execute the following:

echo ‘export HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%d/%m/%y %T “‘ >> ~/.bash_profile ; source ~/.bash_profile

Now the history command is more useful.

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