How to see time in ~/.bash_history file
I added time to the ~/.bashrc
file, so now it shows me time when I execute history
command like this:
376 04/10/19 20:39:52 sudo cat ~/.bash_history
377 04/10/19 20:40:04 date
378 07/10/19 10:13:29 echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc
379 07/10/19 10:13:38 source ~/.bashrc
380 07/10/19 10:13:54 history
381 07/10/19 10:20:08 sudo vim /home/subir/.bash_history
382 07/10/19 10:20:29 sudo nano /home/subir/.bash_history
383 07/10/19 11:34:20 cd ..
384 07/10/19 11:34:34 find | grep .bash_history
385 07/10/19 11:34:48 cat ./subir/.bash_history
386 07/10/19 11:37:32 history
But when this session's data gets appended to ~/.bash_history
file then it shows something like this :
#1570201804
date
#1570423409
echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc
#1570423418
source ~/.bashrc
#1570423434
history
#1570423808
sudo vim /home/subir/.bash_history
#1570423829
sudo nano /home/subir/.bash_history
What are the values after #
?. Can anyone help me deduce it's meaning or tell me a way to get timestamp in ~/.bash_history
file.
That's Unix Timestamp / Epoch time - number of seconds passed from January 1st, 1970.
If you convert it to datetime, you will get:
$ date -d @1570201804
Fri Oct 4 18:10:04 EAT 2019
In UTC it is 10/04/2019 @ 3:10pm (UTC)
but since I am in East Africa, we get +3 time difference coming to 10/04/2019 @ 6:10pm (UTC)
I guess your timezone is +5:30
Parse .bash_history containing timestamp (awk).
first I cut the field at newline -F \\n
and check for lines beginning with #epoch $0 ~ /^#[0-9]+/
. Next I trim off first char substr($1,2)
before formatting the epoch string strftime("%d/%m/%y %T")
. Last I print the first part without newline printf "%5d %s "
so I can fetch the next line getline
that contains the commands and print them on the same line.
awk -F \\n '{ if ($0 ~ /^#[0-9]+/) {printf "%5d %s ", ++i, strftime("%d/%m/%y %T", substr($1,2)); getline; print $0 }}' ~/.bash_history
Output:
1 07/10/19 14:46:09 echo a
2 07/10/19 14:46:28 echo b
3 07/10/19 14:46:39 echo c