Questions tagged [history]
The history command can be used to retrieve commands you have previously typed in a shell.
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Help! My bash script stopped working as intended!
I am trying to get a very basic bash script to work but the output for the history command stopped working properly!!
This is the output
#!/bin/bash -i
history
And that's the code
Any ...
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I believe I was hacked over night [closed]
I believe I was hacked last night. I am a little bit new to the Linux world so I don't know if this is normal or not, but there were a lot of random things in my command line history. Here a Google ...
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How can I recall a command from history by number without executing it?
How can I grab a command from history by number to my command line without executing it?
This immediately executes command number 555 which I'm not looking for:
$ history 10
$ !555
This opens the ...
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How to save terminal commands differently?
I am taking some online courses. I want to seperate all commands. That is, I want to save all commands that I execute during classes on a different memory file than my other system commands. This will ...
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How do I execute command from history without printing it again in the terminal?
$ echo hello; cd ~/Docs
hello
$ !!
echo hello; cd ~/Docs
hello
I want to get hello and execute the change directory after typing !! without re-showing echo hello; cd ~/Docs, again.
Edit:
fc ...
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How to delete history of terminal permanently [duplicate]
I tried
history -c
but it doesn't work
It will only clear the history for the current terminal session and when I open a new terminal history appears again
Is there any option that I can try
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ksh history problem
I'm on Xubuntu 20.04.02
This is a question about ksh command history. Something had changed recently and I'm looking for a way to restore the old behavior.
For years and up to about a month or so ago,...
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How do I disable mouse history scrolling?
How Do you disable the ability to scroll through history using the mouse scroll button. The reason that I need to do it that I am programming and I find my scroll history pasted randomly through my ...
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How display over 1000 commands history?
I am working on a project that have reached over more than 3000 commands. However most of the commands of mine is repeated and generated automatically due to my program.
I have try to grep or export ...
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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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Ubuntu 20.04 zfs grub rollback snapshots
I'm interested in teh ZFS snapshot feature, So I deployed 20.04 VM with ZFS.
I created a snapshot to test how the rollback procedure works.
sudo snapshot -r rpool@SNAP1
When then I created and ...
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Accessing, from inside a script, the exact command that was issued on terminal to fire the script in question [closed]
Let's say I issue the following command:
./myscript.sh file* test.txt
Now, I wish myscript.sh to be able to create a variable, say howiwasran, such that if it were to echo ${howiwasran}, the output ...
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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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command history
Which is the most correct answer for this question: Write a one-line command that searches the last 50 commands that have been used for the term "find", and saves the result in history.txt
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Recalling command history [duplicate]
I know about the history command and Ctrl+R and !, but there is still something I find frustrating when working with bash.
Let's say I start typing "ssh username@serv" and then I've just ...
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Is there a default clipboard history in Ubuntu? If there is, how can I access it?
Is there a default clipboard history in Ubuntu 20.04 or later? If there is, how can I access it? I know there are lots of available applications for saving clipboard history in the default Ubuntu ...
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How to show recent programmes?
how to display the recently used programmes (not files, that is implemented)?
I am looking for:
a function / script or so to do the job.
How I would like to have the problem solved is something on ...
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gnome terminal history strange behavior
When I press UP several times in gnome terminal after 5-6th history item it'll mix the commands. Example:
user@computer:~ $ docker run -d -p 8080:elinks http://localhost:32768
I use the following ...
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reverse-i-search of history not finding expected commands
Today upon bringing up a bash terminal I tried finding a frequently-used command from my bash history via Ctrl-r. To my surprise, it wasn't found. Upon inspecting ~/.bash_history, I saw instances of ...
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Prevent showing duplicated entries in terminal
Is there any way to prevent showing duplicated entries in terminal?
Every time I go up, I see lots of repeated command until I find the command I want
In windows 10 version 2004 they fix this issue, ...
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How to clear previous data in terminal? [closed]
I’m sure this question has been asked a million and one times already. I saw a video the other day about accessing all lost passwords and usernames through terminal nnd my question is are you able to ...
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Write bash history when connection is terminated abnormally [duplicate]
How can I make sure that my bash history gets written to ~/.bash_history when I am disconnected abnormally?
I work on several remote Linux hosts, and my connection is frequently terminated abnormally....
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Logging all terminal input/output history
Ubuntu 20.04 on Hyper-V VM
I am trying to do something similar to what is written in this answer. I think this answer logs all the terminal to a certain file. I would like to be able to log all my ...
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How to obtain a consolidated system wide history irrespective of users or powers? [duplicate]
If I am a normal user and I type
history
I get a set of commands typed by me in the terminal.
Now I make myself the sudo su (su stands for super-user here and not substitute user)
sudo su
I am ...
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History -a from a bash script
I'm trying to call the following within a bash script:
`history -a current_history`
it is supposed to create the file with the commands executed this session.
Works perfectly fine in a shell ...
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Why does Ubuntu 20.04 on ZFS destroy custom datasets at boot-time zpool import of the zpool.cache?
After creating the targets of a personal data lake, and filling them with plenty of terabytes through rsync, I was quite surprised at the next reboot, that Ubuntu's ZFS didn't like the datasets, and ...
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How to view users' history commands from different ssh clients
As admin, I need to check history commands of users. However, I found that logged from different ssh clients, you can't see all history in the host but only history from same ssh client machine. So is ...
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How to see history of suspensions?
There are commands to check uptime, history of reboots, but how to check time(s) when system was suspended?
Kubuntu 18.04.4 Desktop.
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append bash history before command finishes
With the solution in [1] it is possible to write the command to bash_history, after the command has finished, with multiple terminals.
That means, if the command is issued and if something happens ...
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History timestemp shows wrong dates
when running the commands
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "
history
the date output are wrong. For example the sudo reboot in line 1407 was done on 31/12/2019. I am not sure about the hours.
How can 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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List unique result only on history command
I ran this command
history | cut -c 8-
It listed all the history commands as expected without line numbers.
I'm wondering if there is a way to list only unique one.
I've tried
history | cut -...
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Changing ubuntu 18 History size
Im trying to change ( Globally) the
HISTSIZE & HISTFILESIZE
I've tried to add the values into /etc/bash.bashrc
and its not working.
Any suggestions?
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Shortcut to open xfce4-terminal and run 'history' command on Xubuntu 16.04.6
I'm trying to set a keyboard shortcut to open xfce4-terminal and run history(command) and keeping terminal open, but so far no avail, I read some tutorials then I tried xfce4-terminal -e "/bin/bash -c ...
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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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bash: error in export command that bash: !st: event not found
When i tried to excute the following
export SENTRY_SECRET_KEY="k(#!st-6eb2y74=@^6s7a67fy5a&@p3y=57#aszb@hs)n^vv0#"
I get the error "bash: !st: event not found"
Please give me solution..
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commands history
So, I wanted to see all the history of commands of a certain user, me more specifically, the probem is that I want to do soo in a NFS server that I am connected through ssh, so, everytime I disconect ...
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Save all command and all output (using script across terminals)
For a short period of time, I want to save the command history and output of every command I run in any terminal I open. It should all go in the same file.
So basically I want to run a command (or ...
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Terminal/Shell config Question
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
TERM=wyse60
SHELL=/bin/bash
set -o vi
telnet using TinyTerm v4.20.1306 with wyse60 emulation
My question is:
Is there something I can add to .bash_profile to allow .bash_history ...
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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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Bionic Beaver Nautilus list of visited servers
Newly switched from 16.04 LTS to Bionic Beaver.
Yet in 16.04 several smb servers were stored to Nautilus server history (or so, sorry don't know the exact terminology). Now after upgrade to B. Beaver ...
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Cleaning up the whole trace of one's activity on ubuntu
I am working on an ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
The computer I am working on is temporarily in my possession, given to me by my employer. So at some point I have to give it back.
What exactly should I consider ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 experienced an internal error
My Ubuntu was stuck in a login loophole hence I removed lightdm and installed gdm instead. Somewhere in the instructions someone suggested to add a sleep 1 in a file. After I did so the system has ...
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Erase Recent Folder in Nautilus via Terminal Command
Can I empty out Recent folder in Nautilus by typing terminal command, and if yes, do I have to re-log in to my system to see the effect?
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How can I audit commands executed by a user without installing acct
I want to audit commands executed for two accounts on my ubuntu desktop about a year ago. I know of acct [sudo apt-get install acct] where I can run lastcomm, dump-acct, dump-utmp but I want a ...
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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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Usermod and history output
I used usermod -G without the -a option, now the main user has only 2 groups. I want to restore all the previous groups but the problem is that i need to list all the groups before the changes
I am ...
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Is there any way to check history only of current session?
I wanted to know if there is any command or any other way I can check my command history only in the current session.
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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 ...
