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How to Set Up Individual Bash History Files for Each Container Alongside a Unified History File?
In my current setup, all of my bash histories are stored in a single file, which is pointed to HISTFILE.
This history includes a history of the host system and all containers.
Along with this history, ...
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bash: function with history -d won't remove history entry
After reading some posts, could not figure out how comes history -d 1 in a function does not delete the entry.
The function below goes directly to the command line:
function test () {
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How to do smart backups of terminal history
Trying to implement smart backups of my zsh terminal history (~/.zsh_history). Same goes for bash no difference just the file is called .bash_history.
So far I have decided to create a private git ...
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How to remove any commands that begins with "echo" from history
I have tried the following:
history -d $(history | grep "echo.*" |awk '{print $1}')
But it is not deleting all the commands from the history with echo
I want to delete any commands which ...
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Why doesn't the bash commands history save datetimes by default in Linux/Debian? [closed]
The bash history does not display or even just save the datetimes of when commands where run. This severely limits the usefulness of the bash history and I can't see any good rationale for it. One can ...
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duplicated history entries at the same timestamp
For some time I had an issue with my history using GNU bash (version 4 and 5) where commands appeared in duplicates. I assumed this was due to the fact that in my .bashrc I had the following line:
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Completely Clear Bash History From Shell Script (sysprep)
I'm working on a sysprep-style script which de-identifies a machine and gets it ready for templatizing. The last task that I'd like to perform (before shutdown) is clearing the bash history for the ...
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Cancel Current Command but Save to History
In bash we can prepend a command with # and insert the non-executed command into our history. Is there a way to achieve similar behavior through some shortcuts or keybinds?
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Why do the line numbers shown by the history command differ from the line numbers of the history file displayed by less and wc -l?
The line numbers from less -N .bash_history and wc -l .bash_history have 44 more lines than the line numbers shown by the bash built-in command history. Comparing the last 20 entries in the history ...
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What are the cases where the command you typed are lost from the history?
I typed a bunch of commands and when I ran history I saw they were not present in there.
Beside the case when the command start with a (space) what are the cases when commands will not be logged in ...
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Hide ones command history from other users on a Linux server
When I log in via ssh on a Linux(Ubuntu) server, I notice that all the bash commands executed by other users on the server are saved in the command history. Is there a way that could allow me to hide ...
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Why do I get different results with the same user and the history command?
I work with Linux for quite some time and have seen this behaviour but I never got a good explanation. Probably it's even very simple.
If I login twice with the same user (bash) in the same server it'...
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where does history timestamp stored before i enable it
I tried to set timestamp for history.
My first attempt was do export EXTENDED_HISTORY=ON command, and it seems like doesn't work.
Then i do echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d.%m.%y %T "' >> /etc/...
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Best tool for monitoring server usage
I was just wondering what the best tools for retracing logs and what logs I should be checking to work out what's going wrong with a server, or what the client has executed to get the server into it's ...
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Can I search bash history across all users on a server?
I want to see all bash commands that have been run on a Linux server across multiple user accounts. The specific distribution I'm using is CentOS 5.7. Is there a way to globally search .bash_history ...
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