save date and time for each command in history

export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '

Date-time format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Sample Output

4459  2009-09-26 19:04:42 ss -p | grep STA
4460  2009-09-26 19:05:30 lsof -P -i -n | cut -f 1 -d " "| uniq | tail -n +1
4461  2009-09-26 19:05:33 lsb_release -a
4462  2009-09-26 19:06:02 mkdir backup
4463  2009-09-26 19:08:54 seq -s " " -w 3 20
4464  2009-09-26 19:09:04 cat   .bashrc  | less 
4465  2009-09-26 19:10:54 history

By: postrational

2009-09-26 17:13:23

export

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save date and time for each command in history

for the change stay in your history file , export command by writing it into your .bashrc Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
tux@gnu:~$ history


  187  Sep/21-20:41:50 ss -p | grep STA
  188  Sep/21-20:42:44 lsof -P -i -n | cut -f 1 -d " "| uniq | tail -n +1
  189  Sep/21-20:43:33 lsb_release -a
  190  Sep/21-20:43:40 mkdir backup
  191  Sep/21-20:43:59 seq -s " " -w 3 20
  192  Sep/26-00:30:59 cat   .bashrc  | less 
  193  Sep/26-00:34:01 history 
```
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export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d-%H:%M:%S "

eastwind · 2009-09-25 22:42:28 7

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