Comments on: How to Enable Timestamp in Linux History Command Output

By: Rohan

Rohan — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:15:11 +0000

I see my code is always giving current time when I execute with HISTTIMEFORMAT. Could you please assist
#!/bin/bash
HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
set -o history
HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%d/%m/%y %T” history | grep -v grep | | grep “\/test\.sh -f \input.xml”| tail -n1

By: Gyanendra

Gyanendra — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 08:05:13 +0000

You will have to wait guys. It will show same time old history command because for those time was not taken. You give some command after interval of few mins/seconds, you will see correct time.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 25 May 2020 01:33:55 +0000

yes, the timestamps on this are just ‘when they’re output to the command prompt. it’s not valid timestamp data

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:13:42 +0000

This does not work exactly … all my time stamps are incorrect

By: Oleg

Oleg — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:10:25 +0000

Thank you ! Very helpful.