Name
history
Synopsis
history [options
]
Display the list of history events. (History syntax is discussed in Section 21.6.)
Options
- -c
Clear history list.
- -h
Print history list without event numbers.
- -r
Print in reverse order; show oldest commands last.
- n
Display only the last
n
history commands, instead of the number set by the history shell variable.- -L
file
Load series of pushd and popd commands from
file
in order to re-create a saved stack.- -M
file
Merge the current directory stack and the stack saved in
file
. Save both, sorted by time, infile
as a series of pushd and popd commands.- -S
file
Print to
file
a series of pushd and popd commands that can be invoked to replicate the stack.- -T
Print with timestamp.
Example
To save and execute the last five commands:
history -h 5 > do_it
source do_it
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