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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting export bash history to file Post 302635701 by agama on Sunday 6th of May 2012 12:04:59 AM
Old 05-06-2012
The man page for history says that using a negative number as the first parameter on the command line (e.g. -1000) will print the most recent (1000 in this example) lines. This isn't working with my version of bash.

Bash keeps it's history in the clear, so you should be able to run this command:

Code:
grep -v "^#" $HISTFILE >output-file

Hope this helps a bit.

EDIT:After some playing history 10000 printed my complete history (which is less than 10000 lines).

Last edited by agama; 05-06-2012 at 01:08 AM.. Reason: Additional info.
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