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Old 03-10-2014
Find Commands Run on Specific Date
Hello All,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to find out what commands were run on a specific date.

I'm looking to see if I can find certain commands that were run on 3/4, today is 3/10...?

Any thoughts or ideas would be much appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

---------- Post updated at 06:03 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:02 PM ----------

Sorry!!!

Sorry guys, I'm just realizing the history command has dates with the commands in there... Duhhhh!!!


-Matt
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Old 03-10-2014
That's definitely a specific feature from the shell. Older shells used to only show the commands that were run by a user.
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Old 03-10-2014
Exporting this makes the date/time available in the history command
Code:
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T"

Well, not sure how old this is though.
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Old 03-11-2014
Hey Guys, thanks for the replies...
Yea I guess its a feature of my Bash Version 4.2.42(1) Shell.

If you look at my .bash_history file you can see every other line has a UNIX timestamp and in between are the actual
commands. So I guess the history command then converts the timestamp to a normal date formatted string and outputs like:
Code:
1. 2014-03-11  10:30  ps -ef | grep foobar

Thanks Again,
Matt
 
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