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I am fairly new to Linux and I need to find a way to show the contents of my Bash History via the command line, and unfortunately I can't seem to find anything that works, or that I can understand. I am using Linux Ubuntu 11.10, and when I open the Bash History manually by finding the file, it opens with something known as gedit. How will I be able to view the contents of my Bash History via the command line? Many Thanks! ~ShadedVeil

ShadedVeil
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  • `sudo nano ~/.bash_history` this will allow you to open up your `bash_history` and go through it – Alex Lowe Feb 11 '16 at 21:56
  • Thank you for your answer! Although, I believe our sudo is passworded as we use Linux on the school system, and the teacher is still finding a way around this. Is there an alternative to using the sudo command? – ShadedVeil Feb 11 '16 at 22:02
  • Just take off the `sudo` from the command so it would look like this `nano ~/.bash_history` – Alex Lowe Feb 11 '16 at 22:06
  • You can also search through your history file to find a certain command like this `history | grep ls` which will find all of the times that you have run the command `ls` – Alex Lowe Feb 11 '16 at 22:08
  • BTW, Why are you using 11.10? The end-of-life of that version was May 9, 2013. You really should upgrade to 14.04 or 15.10. – QwertyChouskie Feb 11 '16 at 22:39
  • It's just what's on the School system. I'd assume it's in relation to when the course was made that we are working through. Thanks for the help guys, I will be sure to try it out :) – ShadedVeil Feb 12 '16 at 00:16

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$history

and it will show the history

 1999  exit
 2000  cd /opt
 2001  sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
 2002  sudo apt-get install p7zip-rar
 2003  mkdir CS-RT-code
 2004  cd CS-RT-code/
 2005  ls -lrt
 2006  history

$ !<history #> to execute the previous history command
Ashu
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less is a pretty useful command evolved from more. You can use it to browse through large text files. Run:

less $HOME/.bash_history

Use the Up/Down arrow keys to go up and down in the file. Press q to exit.

For more information/keyboard shortcuts in less, run man less. It will show its manual pages.

For instance, you could also use other utilities, such as cat (cat $HOME/.bash_history), more (more $HOME/.bash_history), nano (nano $HOME/.bash_history) and Vim (vim $HOME/.bash_history).

Eduardo Cola
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