I want to view the contents of my .bash_history
file but don't know how to get there via the command line.
I want to view the contents of my .bash_history
file but don't know how to get there via the command line.
If you want to access the actual file itself, just use your favorite text editor (I use emacs
but you can use pluma
of gedit
or vim
or whatever):
emacs ~/.bash_history
That is the default location if your history file. If you don't find anything there, you may have changed the history file's name. This is stored in the $HISTFILE
variable, so print it out to check its current value:
echo $HISTFILE
If, instead of the file, you just want to see your history, you can run history
as @minerz029 suggested. The history
command with no options just prints the contents of your $HISTFILE
followed by the commands executed in the current shell that have not yet been written to that file, with line numbers.