How to find date wise history of commands being fired [duplicate]

Question

How can I make the history command display the date and time information in addition to the command line?

Katey

This depends on your shell. Bash's history file .bash_history for example doesn't contain any date information, it is just a list of commands. – Harriet

@scai, it depends on the HISTTIMEFORMAT, it may contain date information. – Cookgeneral

Answer 1

The history of executed commands is stored by your shell. Try adding something like this to you ~/.bashrc

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%m/%d - %H:%M:%S: "

It will change the HISTTIMEFORMAT variable and bash will store a timestamp in its history accordingly. Then your history will look like this

487  08/16 - 16:12:01: cd Downloads
488  08/16 - 16:12:04: ls -a
489  08/16 - 16:12:37: cat README | less
490  08/16 - 16:12:58: pkg-config --list-all | grep webkit
491  08/16 - 16:13:04: history

Available identifiers are

%d - Day
%m - Month
%y - Year
%T - Time
%H - Hours
%M - Minutes
%S - Seconds

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