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Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response 5E, 5th Edition
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Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response 5E, 5th Edition

by Chuck Easttom
February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
17h 3m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Essential Linux Artifacts

If you are targeting a Linux device in your investigation, as opposed to using Linux to conduct forensics, there are some artifacts that should be part of any Linux forensic investigation. These will be summarized in the following subsections.

Bash History

The bash history keeps record of bash commands in the terminal. The simplest way to see the history is just to type in history at the shell, as shown in FIGURE 7-5B.

Terminal in Kali Linux showing the output of the history command, listing recent commands such as ls, cd, ps -aux, and pstree.

FIGURE 7-5B The history command.

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You can also use the grep command to search history, for example:

history | grep ls

Syslog

This will be found either at /var/log/syslog ...

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