Name
history
Synopsis
history [options]
history [lines]
Description
Print a numbered command history, denoting modified commands with a *. Include commands from previous sessions. You may specify how many lines of history to print.
Options
- -a [file]
bash maintains a file called .bash_history in the user’s home directory, a record of previous sessions’ commands. Ask bash to append the current session’s commands to .bash_history or to file.
- -c
Clear history list: remove all previously entered commands from the list remembered by the shell.
- -n [file]
Append to the history list those lines in the .bash_history file or in file that have not yet been included.
- -r [file]
Use .bash_history or file as the history list, instead of the working history list.
- -s command
Add command to working history list without executing it.
- -w [file]
Overwrite .bash_history or file with working history list.
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