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Old 09-21-2008
Saving stuff to a text file
If I do a "history" and get a list of commands that I've done before, can I save them to a text file? If not, then would there be any other ways around this? Also, what's a snapshot?

Thanks in advance.
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Old 09-21-2008
all history commands are saved in a file called
Quote:
.sh_history
you can copy that to a text file...
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Old 09-21-2008
Is .sh_history stored in the root?
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Old 09-21-2008
It's saved in the home directory of the user who owns it. It may be .bash_history if you are using bash.

Have you tried just doing a history > somefile?

Regarding the snapshot question, what is the context? Snapshot is used to describe many things...
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Old 09-21-2008
Quote:
Have you tried just doing a history > somefile?
dear Annihilannic
history won't give all history details it gives by default some 20 or 30 history commands so i suggested him to copy .sh_history file to text file..
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Old 09-21-2008
If you want more you can specify the number:

Code:
history -100 > somefile

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Old 09-22-2008
Annihilannic: I was referring to a file called ".snapshot". I was confusing it with the ".sh_history" file. I still don't know what a snapshot file is, but I doubt it has anything to do with history.

Anyway, "history > somefile" works just file. Thanks everyone.
 
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