Comments on: How to Add Date And Time To Your Bash History file

By: nima0102

nima0102 — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:11:49 +0000

thanks for your trick

By: Kostya Berger

Kostya Berger — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:18:22 +0000

I like those enhancements, guys!
Only, it gives me this “wise reminder” after every ENTER hit in the BASH prompt:
bash: history: cannot use more than one of -anrw

…although, I must admit it, I’m not in “Lenny”, I’m in OpenSuSE 11.1. But I guess BASH is distro-independent, eh? GPL software and all that…

By: rangalo

rangalo — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:50:02 +0000

I had to replace the double quotes with single quotes to get this working

By: Robert Tulke

Robert Tulke — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:32:54 +0000

# My .bashrc HISTORY

export HISTTIMEFORMAT=’%F %T ‘ # time entry for .bash_history
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups # eliminate continuous occurrences duplicates
export HISTSIZE=100000 # big big histfile
shopt -s histappend # append to history, don’t overwrite it

# Save and reload the history after each command finishes
export PROMPT_COMMAND=”history -a; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND”

By: Robert Tulke

Robert Tulke — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:56:53 +0000

In short:

export HISTTIMEFORMAT=’%F %T ‘
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
export HISTSIZE=5000