topic check history in Operating System - Linux

check history

juno2 — Tue, 13 May 2003 08:49:48 GMT

I login as root user and run some command on the shell , how can I check back my history - what command I have ran ? I check it on the file /.sh_history , but what is in linux ? thx.

Re: check history

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Tue, 13 May 2003 09:17:33 GMT

in bash you can use arrow buttons for walking into your history, history file itself is .bash_history

Vitaly

Re: check history

Sergejs Svitnevs — Tue, 13 May 2003 09:30:29 GMT

The command "history" is the sequential list of commands you have typed, in the current or previous shell sessions. The command history is stored in a text file in the home directory called ".bash_history" (root: "/root/.bash_history").
By default, bash remembers the last 500 events.

Regards,
Sergejs

Re: check history

Balaji N — Tue, 13 May 2003 09:40:38 GMT

check out /root/.bash_history.

and by default on a RHL box it is 1000 (set in /etc/profile)

-balaji

Re: check history

Jerome Henry — Tue, 13 May 2003 09:48:41 GMT

And you can read it by
cat /root/.bash_history | more
or
vim /root/.bash_history
(':q!' to go away from Vim if you are not familiar with it. SAme command on profile to change the value from 1000 to something else, but do not be too greedy on history size).

Jerome (celebrating my new cap : can I have it in read instead of green ?)