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Asked: 2026-06-09T21:32:56+00:00

How can I make the history command display the date and time information in

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

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    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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