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Friday, June 2, 2017

Set Date and Time for Each Command You Execute in Bash History

By default, all commands executed by Bash on the command line are stored in history buffer or recorded in a file called ~/.bash_history. This means that a system administrator can view a list of commands executed by users on the system or a user can view his/her command history using the history command like so.
$ history

Linux History Command
Linux History Command
From the output of the history command above, the date and time when a command was executed is not shown. This is the default setting on most if not all Linux distributions.
In this article, we will explain how you can configure time stamp information when each command in the Bash history was executed to be displayed.
The date and time associated with each history entry can be written to the history file, marked with the history comment character by setting the HISTTIMEFORMAT variable.

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