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