How To Use Linux Bash History Commands

Introduction

While working on Linux, you spend most of the time on command line terminal. Mostly you use bash shell, which is default in most of the Linux distribution.

Also while working on terminal, you repeat most of the commands. Typing command on terminal is a good practice for the beginners.

Linux bash shell provides awesome history command. Which captures the history of the command run on terminal. In this article, we will see how to use history feature provided by bash shell.

Audience

This article is for beginner, intermediate and expert all three level of Linux users.

What will you learn?

In this article you will learn, how to use bash shell history command, adjust history commands size, variour useful options to work with history command, execution commands from bash history, scrolling through bash history, Searching through bash history, and some advanced uses of bash history etc.

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