Name

history — Prints out a list of previous commands

Synopsis

history

Description

This lists previously issued commands. Commands can be reissued in two ways: use the up and down arrow keys to navigate through the list of commands, or use ! number, in which number is the number of the command as shown in the list displayed by the history command. Note that the ! syntax does not work in many versions of the shell.

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