{"id":4912,"date":"2015-06-04T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2015-06-04T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:28:52","slug":"add-date-to-bash-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=4912","title":{"rendered":"Add date to bash history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to add date to bash history, knowing when some commands were fired.<\/p>\n<p>Before the change:<\/p>\n<p>root@host# history<br \/>\n1 ifconfig<br \/>\n2 ifup eth0<br \/>\n3 ifconfig<br \/>\n4 shutdown -r now<\/p>\n<p>root@host# history<br \/>\n1 ifconfig<br \/>\n2 ifup eth0<br \/>\n3 ifconfig<br \/>\n4 shutdown -r now<\/p>\n<p>Now, make appripriate changes in your bash profile:<\/p>\n<p>echo &#8216;export HISTTIMEFORMAT=&#8221;%d\/%m\/%y %T &#8220;&#8216; &gt;&gt; ~\/.bash_profile<br \/>\necho &#8216;export HISTTIMEFORMAT=&#8221;%d\/%m\/%y %T &#8220;&#8216; &gt;&gt; ~\/.bash_profile<\/p>\n<p>Open another SSH session and check<\/p>\n<p>Shell<\/p>\n<p>1 Dec\/28 &#8211; 12:22:13 ifconfig<br \/>\n2 Dec\/28 &#8211; 12:23:37 ifup eth0<br \/>\n3 Dec\/28 &#8211; 12:24:51 ifconfig<br \/>\n4 Dec\/28 &#8211; 12:25:45 shutdown -r now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to add date to bash history, knowing when some commands were fired.<\/p>\n<p>Before the change:<\/p>\n<p>root@host# history 1 ifconfig 2 ifup eth0 3 ifconfig 4 shutdown -r now<\/p>\n<p>root@host# history 1 ifconfig 2 ifup eth0 3 ifconfig 4 shutdown -r now<\/p>\n<p>Now, make appripriate changes in your bash profile:<\/p>\n<p>echo &#8216;export HISTTIMEFORMAT=&#8221;%d\/%m\/%y %T &#8220;&#8216; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}