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View user bash history in Ubuntu
First open up a terminal from Applications > Accessories > Terminal and type the following command
history
This will show you all your terminal commands history on the terminal
If you want to save this history in to a file use the following command
history -w ~/userhistory.txt
Once you have save the file you can view using the following command from your terminal
gedit ~/userhistory.txt
Change bash history file size
If you want to change bash history file size open up your .bashrc using the following command from your terminal
gedit ~/.bashrc
Now add the following line at the top
export HISTFILESIZE=3000
Save and exit the file
As you can see, the limit can be changed.
Bash shell keeps it’s own history in a file. You can view that file as stated before, or by opening ~/.bash_history.
I think you have to do “
source ~/.bashrc
” after that!Good tip. I like to search thru history with ctrl-r inside bash – type a few chars and use ctrl-r again to cycle thru results.
You may want to give a try to https://github.com/dvorka/hstr that allows even more convenient shell history navigation and management.