history – ServerOK

To get history show time

echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc
source  ~/.bashrc

1 2	echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc

history -a will append your current session history to the content of the history file.

history -w will replace the content of the history file with your current session history.

To remove line number from history, run

history | sed 's|[0-9]\+\s\+||'

1	history \| sed 's\|[0-9]\+\s\+\|\|'

history | cut -d' ' -f5-40

1	history \| cut -d' ' -f5-40

Log everything

To log everything, edit

vi /etc/bash.bashrc

1	vi /etc/bash.bashrc

Add

test "$(ps -ocommand= -p $PPID | awk '{print $1}')" == 'script' || (script -f $HOME/$(date +"%d-%b-%y_%H-%M-%S")_shell.log)

1	test "$(ps -ocommand= -p $PPID \| awk '{print $1}')" == 'script' \|\| (script -f $HOME/$(date +"%d-%b-%y_%H-%M-%S")_shell.log)

Or manually start logging with

script -f $HOME/session.log

1	script -f $HOME/session.log