Enable Time stamps in bash history

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To display shell command history with date and time under a Linux,


1.Defining the environment variable named HISTTIMEFORMAT as follows:

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$ HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

Where,
%d – Day, %m – Month, %y – Year, %T – Time

2. Use the source command to load HISTTIMEFORMAT from the file into the current shell script or a command prompt:

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$ . ~/.bash_profile_file

Sample Output:

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$ history


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  519  05/08/17 16:43:41 history
  520  05/08/17 16:43:53 w
  521  05/08/17 16:43:56 iostat
  522  05/08/17 16:44:01 top
  523  05/08/17 16:44:07 at
  524  05/08/17 16:44:09 q
  525  05/08/17 16:44:20 history