In this tutorial, you will learn how to add the date and time to bash history. Sometimes it would be very useful to know when a particular command got executed.
By default, you will get history as shown below without a timestamp for each history entry. You can add the date and time to history entries by following the below steps.
Add timestamps to History entries:
You can set timestamps for each history entry by setting the HISTTIMEFORMAT variable in your .bashrc file.
Let’s append the following line to ~/.bashrc file:
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h %d %H:%M:%S "
After modifying .bashrc file, execute the following command to apply changes:
Now, when you type history, it will show something like:
