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#02-Linux Tip of the Day 💡🐧

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TRÄW🤟
Jan 08, 2024
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You can enable timestamps in your bash command history to see when you ran previous commands. This can be useful for tracing what you were working on and when.

To add timestamps to your history, just set the HISTTIMEFORMAT environment variable like so:

$ export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

Now when you view your history or grep through it, you'll see a timestam…

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