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airdas
airdas

Reputation: 932

View old ssh session's command history with correct time stamps

I have added:

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

to my .bashrc file so that when I execute history I get a time-stamped list of commands.

However when I shut down and open my ssh session again, all previous commands' time stamps are set to the time I connected to the ssh session. Is there a way to keep the correct time stamps between ssh sessions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1902

Answers (1)

Dfaure
Dfaure

Reputation: 584

According to https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-bash-history-commands-and-expansions-on-a-linux-vps, you may try to flush history as soon as commands are executed.

BTW, having a look at ~/.bash_history will show you that the command timing is stored as a preceding commented line with unix time stamp. If the commented timestamp line is missing, the current time is used.

Upvotes: 1

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