How do I add a date and time to my bash shell history in linux?
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HISTTIMEFORMAT If this variable is set and not null, its value is used as a format string for strftime(3) to print the time stamp associated with each history entry displayed by the history builtin. If this variable is set, time stamps are written to the history file so they may be preserved across shell sessions. This uses the history comment character to distinguish timestamps from other history lines.
Set this variable to a date and time format in your bash shell environment file.
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "Before setting the variable history shows the following.
$ history 1 who 2 uptime 3 history
After setting the variable.
$ history 1 14/04/20 08:47:24 who 2 14/04/20 08:47:26 uptime 3 14/04/20 08:47:30 history
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