Questions tagged [bash-history]
Refers to the history of commands that have been run previously in Bash.
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Different history for different terminals
I would like to have something like "history environment", so for different consoles I can access different histories.
I have different terminals defined, I would like to have for each ...
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Bash don't save history to file but allow up arrow to cycle through history
I have an Ubuntu which is shared by other people using my account. I don't want the to see my history by running the history command.
Here is what I have tried:
export HISTIGNORE='*'
It removes ...
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Ubuntu's history keeps popping up
I've got a problem with my Ubuntu 22.04. I want to clear out the command line history, so I type 'history -c' and everything seems fine, I type 'history' and it's all cleard. Then, I logout and ...
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How do I rerun the second-to-last command?
I'm using Ubuntu 21.10. If I mess up, I can re-run the last command with !!. Here's an example:
$ apt update
Reading package lists... Done
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (...
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How to clear "run a comand" history?
I have been trying to clear ubuntu's 'run my command' history but cannot find any way. if any one have the solution please tell
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How do I go back to the bottom of history after pressing up in Bash?
If I scroll way up or use Ctrlr search and go way up in the history, how to get back down to the clear line? I know I can clear with Ctrle, Crtlu, but that modifies them. Is there an official way ...
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When using the history command , is it possible to get more details such as timestamp of each result? [duplicate]
History command options to see more details such as timestamp of each command entered
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Handy command for editing previously executed mistyped command and overwriting history entry with the fixed one
until recently I was pretty sure that fc command opens previously executed command in the default editor, executes submitted changes and overwrites last entry from the bash history. However, seems ...
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How to briefly use last ignored (not saved in history file) command in bash?
In my bash config file .bashrc,I have set it up in a way that commands preceded by a space are not saved in history. What I am asking is, how to achieve similar function as this answer here which was ...
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bash history: can't retrieve commands/commands not saved [duplicate]
I suddenly got a problem with my bash history. When I type history, it only shows:
1 history
I tried following commands:
set -o | grep history
echo $HISTFILE
echo $HISTSIZE
echo $HISTFILESIZE
and ...
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Find the history of all commands entered in a specific location in terminal
Is there a way that I could find history of all commands (or 100 most recent commands) that were entered in a specific directory?
For example, imagine I am in mona@goku:~/research/code/phosa/external/...
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use the terminal without making history
I use a shared Ubuntu computer at the local Makerspace. looking at history I can see some times where I sshd into a remote host... I kinda wish I hadn't done that from here. I am able to run history -...
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What to do after entering sudo password as plain text into terminal?
A few days ago i entered my sudo password (and hence my root password) into the terminal as plain text by mistake.
I wanted to change my password, but forgot to enter the passwd command, and only ...
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How can i write only the latest commands to ~/.bash_history file? [duplicate]
my ~/.bash_history file keeps record of all the commands i've typed. can i not put only the latest commands that i've typed from the start of terminal so that it always show me the recently typed ...
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lines starts with # and integers in .bash_history
I see lines contains #1582696021 . Whats is this? In SIEM we use it seems like a command running by user.
Any help or documentation would be appreciated.
Best
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No history and path/bash completion on some systems
For some reason, I don't have a history of commands in the terminal and neither can I complete paths or commands. Pressing arrows also show symbols like ^[[D and ^[[C.
The shell is bash and .bashrc ...
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How to prevent saving bash commands *with* space in front
I read that, in order to not save bash commands to .bash_history, you put a space in front. This worked on all my embedded Linux PCs but not on my desktop with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I just thought it was ...
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How can I test if there are entries in the terminal command history in bash?
I'm still quite new to bash scripting and I need a very simple script that, if there is command history, displays it, and, if there isn't, informs the user that there is no command history.
What I ...
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How to see time in ~/.bash_history file
I added time to the ~/.bashrc file, so now it shows me time when I execute history command like this:
376 04/10/19 20:39:52 sudo cat ~/.bash_history
377 04/10/19 20:40:04 date
378 07/10/19 ...
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clear terminal cache [duplicate]
I need to clear the terminal cache, I have tried with history -c but it clears the cache in that terminal session, but if I open another session and type history it shows all the previous commands.
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Prevent admins from disabling bash history
I have some admins that don't want their activity seen.
They cleverly run set +o history once they log in. Doing so means that commands they run don't get recorded in the history file.
Is there a ...
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Can users with the same $HOME have separate bash histories?
I have two users, that have the same home directory:
useradd -m -d /home/mydir user1
useradd -m -d /home/mydir user2
and they are in the same group.
But I have a problem, when someone logged in the ...
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multiline command chunks in bash history into multiple lines
In Bash (as well as Bash in WSL), multiline written commands can call-back with up/down arrows correctly also built-in history command report them correctly (until I'm still logged-in in bash).
But ...
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when parent directory is mounted on to new volume, i cannot see the sub directory which was existing earlier
After mounting /yesh onto a new volume, I cannot see the sub directory /yesh/data001 which was existing before mounting.
If the sub directory is existing where can I find it?
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Command history seems to be missing the first 75 lines
A couple of years ago, I did the automatic distribution update from 14.04 to 16.04. For the first time in my life, I was able to continue to use the computer after the automatic distribution update. ...
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How to keep all bash history
I want to keep my duplicates and all commands started with a space. How do I do that? I have no ideas what to do. Last time that I messed with bash nothing worked at all afterwards.
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Couldn't navigate through directories using bash script
Through script I am not able to change into directories and list the files.
cd is not working.
Here is my script
#!/bin/bash
export HOME=/home/yesh
DIR_START=2
DIR_END=`wc -l < ${HOME}/conf/...
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bash history log all commands to syslog
I am trying to log all commands ran by all users. I got a solution from Github
function log2syslog
{
declare COMMAND
COMMAND=$(fc -ln -0)
logger -p local1.notice -t bash -i -- "${...
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Creating a complete and alphabetically sorted .txt file of bash history
I want to have a complete and sorted list of my bash history. But there are some problems:
By doing history the list never shows the complete list and only 1000 commands are shown.
In my $HOME ...
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Cannot connect to the internet after cleaning history
I was using a friend's laptop with an Ubuntu 16 OS. I was asked
to clean the historic files an after browsing a few websites, I used:
cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history
command which appear not ...
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Gnome Shell command prompt history
I have a question regarding the Gnome Shell command prompt (Alt+F2).
I already know that I can delete/reset the command history using dconf, but is there a way to completely disable it?
Also, where ...
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Why is history and .bash_history different and how to delete an entry in history?
So I know ~/.bash_history should be the file storing all the history and that you can just type in history to see all the contents of this file.
Why would my .bash_history file have just 5 entries ...
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Terminal saves junk values in history
When I'm pressing upper arrow to browse history for some reason the terminal saves either bad out put and good output (commands and junk).
for example when I'm typing the following junk it remember ...
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Reverse-i-search jumps back in time!
Sometimes I want to search for a previously executed command in my console.
So I press Ctrl + R and I enter in (reverse-i-search) mode. I start typing my command and I press Ctrl + R again and again ...
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How does setting the time format in .bash_history work?
I turned on the time logging flags for .bash_history (HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ') and as expected, when I checked history, I was able to see the time at which commands were executed, up to a point. And ...
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How to delete bash history for specific date range [duplicate]
I know how to delete the complete history of all the commands I have ran in my bash terminal, however, I don't want to delete all the history.
What I want is to delete the history for a specific ...
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Create record of bash-commands and its properties
I want to keep a history of whatever I do on bash and its output.
I need to create a DB which can store
command
path (at command time)
command start time
command end time
output of the command
Can ...
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Wanted to disable history -c for all users except the one with sudo rights?
I am able to secure .bash_history and .profile files so that user cannot delete or edit those files and cannot change shell as well.
I needed this for bastion host for all production instances. I ...
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Hide "history -d" in bash history
If I accidentally type my password or anything else sensitive in bash I can easily remove that line with history -d ROW#, but I'm always left with the history -d ROW# command in history showing ...
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Terminal replacing ! followed by a number with a command
I'm very confused about my ubuntu terminal session, it seems to replace sections in commands that start by ! followed by a number with seemingly random commands. It does that with !87 replacing it ...
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Excluding some commands from getting stored in bash history only after terminal is closed
Currently I am using $HISTIGNORE to ignore some commands and not save them in bash history. But current behaviour is if I am running a terminal I executed a command which is in $HISTIGNORE then on ...
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How does the history command work?
When I type any command in the terminal, it doesn't appear in my ~/.bash_history file until I exit my session.
Also, when I manually edit my ~/.bash_history file (for example I remove the last three ...
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Deleting history from ~/.bash_history
I have a couple questions about the terminal or command line history that is stored in ~/.bash_history.
I can see the file in the terminal with the history command but if I try to open it with gedit ...
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HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth doesn't work [duplicate]
The default .bashrc in the standard distribution of Ubuntu 16.04 that comes with AWS has these lines:
# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
# See bash(1) for more ...
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After removing .bash_history?
After I remove .bash_history, will .bash_history ever be recreated again? If so what creates it after it has been removed?
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Customise Bash Terminal Font Colours
A short while ago I asked this question, on how to customise the bash terminal font colours. The question was answered and I got the colours wanting, using the link provided by a helpful user.
The ...
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show what command is used in graphical mode
Is it possible to use some kind of verbose to show on the terminal what commands are executed when using graphical mode? For example: if I click on chrome it must show: google-chrome.
My goal is to ...
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Add to History Script not working
I am trying to add lines from a file to my history, but it just adds the program code! What am I doing wrong?
#!/bin/bash
HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
set -o history
cat file.txt | while read line
do
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how do I remove the last 5 lines in bash history?
How can I remove the last 5 lines in bash history? So that when I reload the Ubuntu server, or restart it they're not there at all?
history -c only removes it from current session, but when I re-login ...
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!x not found - bash script
I made a simple bash script to run a range of commands in your history, but it's not working.
read -p "control + c to cancel"
for i in $(seq $1 $2) ...
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