Possible Duplicate: Can history files be unified in bash? I have bash running in an ssh session, call this session A. I leave the office, go home, ssh to the same box, call this session B. From session B, I'd like to be able to look at the history of session A.
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to define an unlimited history in Bash ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow can I get/filter history entries in a specific range?I have a large history file and frequently usehistory | grep somecommandNow, my memory is pretty bad and I also want to see what else I did around the time I entered the command.For now I do this:get match, say 4992 somecommand, then I do history | grep 49[0-9][0-9]this is usually good enough, but I would much rather do it more precisely, that is see commands from 4972 to 5012, that is 20 commands before and 20 after. I am wondering if there is an easier way? I suspect, a custom script is in order, but perhaps someone else has done something similar before.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to use the keyboard in order to select some text in the terminal windows that is not in the currently edited line? (for example, in order to copy part of previous command output).
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow is shell history specific to each tty? I can't see anything in the history files that would indicate which tty a command was performed on, however if I restart and log in on several ttys, the command order and history is preserved on each. How is this accomplished? This goes for zsh and bash equally.Now for some zsh specific questions.I had a saved webpae, which resulted in a file called doku.php.htm, and a directory called doku.php_files - I could only get zsh to expand the directory. It didnt seem to give me the option to cycle nor did it only complete as much as it could with ambiguity, i.e. to doku.php , so what is this behaviour and where can I read about it?
Secondly I would like to know why zsh interactive shells do not expand the PS1 prompt completely. Whenever I open an xterm or such, the prompt is not the normal PS1 prompt. I read through the manuals and config files, and could see nowhere that staed a different prompt should be used depending on the shell type. Why does this happen, and how can I modify this behavior?Regarding modules, if I install the compat-wifi modules which I assume replace the existing ones, how would I uninstall them? Would I just reinstall the normal kernel modules over them?
I am working on a x86 target running fedora 9.
Whenever I reboot it, my history returns to some state, and I do not have commands I did in the sessions before the reboot.
What I have to change to have updated history I had before reboot?
In my organization, we have a centralized home directory for all users which gets mounted from all the machine where user logs in.Since any XYZ user can login to any of hundreds test machines and run 'sudo su - myusername', hence taking control of my home dir.How do I track who took control of my home dir and deleted its contents.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to get the bash history to delete older entries that are identical to the new one?Say the bash history would look like this normally:
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cd ~
ls -l
[code]...
i want to delete some say 10 previous commands in bash shell!
View 3 Replies View RelatedI would like to keep track of not only what bash commands I used and when, but also where they were issued from, i.e. what was the current working directory when I issued "foobar" on a particular day and time. Can we ask bash history to keep track of working directories too? I have tried to get an idea of this reading the enormous "man bash", but I don't seem to have an answer yet either way.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have a bash script which is called automaticallyI want it so that if when the script is called if a previous instance of it is already running then to delay the running of it until the previous instance has stopped (effectively queue up ./script.sh var1 var2)I have seen some posts about a 'lockfile' but this just seems to stop the second instance running rather than queueing it up to run next (it also needs to be able to queue up a 3rd/4th calling of the script and run them one at a time)
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have something like...
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var=beer
# echo ${var/%e/E} doesn't do anything because i can only replace "r" or "er" this way
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I am using squid proxy server for sharing Internet in my internal network. I would like to know that how can I check the browsing history by individual users web surfing history by their IP addresses?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am starting an instance of mplayer from a bash script, opening an audio stream:
Code:
mplayer [URL]
How do I do to control this mplayer instance from another script? I want to control volume and pause it from within the bash script. I know the commands for doing so from terminal, but once mplayer gets started from the script, how do I 'direct' the commands to that specific mplayer instance?
Bash's command history is great, especially it is useful when adding the history -a command to the COMMAND_PROMPT.However, I'm wondering if there is a way to log the commands to a file as soon as the Return key is pressed, e.g. before starting the command and not on completion of the command (using the COMMAND_PROMPT option would save the command once the prompt is there again).
I read about auditing programs like snoopy and session recorder like script but I thought they're already too complex for the simple question I have. I guess that deactivating that script logs all the output of the command would lead already in the right direction but isn't there a quicker way to solve that probelm?
What's the command to delete bash command history?
View 4 Replies View Relatedterminal i open i have no history; the history is kept only in that terminal and is gone when i exit the terminal.If I count lines:as a user:
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$ wc -l .bash_history
wc: .bash_history: Permission denied
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I have tried a combination of the following lines in .bashrc to try and control duplicates in the bash history file:
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
[code]....
installed Ubuntu Server Edition and I've found that my first user has a bash history and I can turn on a coloured prompt by editing my .bashrc etc but new users don't have that!I did : useradd -d /home/newb -m newbpasswd newband the correct looking .bashrc file appears to be in /home/newb but it is being ignore by bash when logged in as newb. Instead I am presented with just a dollar prompt instead of "newb@server"how can I sort out my users with proper prompts?
View 1 Replies View Relatedi wrote a script to run over a macintosh system
Quote:
#!/bin/bash
history -c
clear
but the script not doing what i am trying to achieve.
Lets say I wanted to save my bash history permanently. I.e., so I could look in a log somewhere and find some command I used 6 months ago, like the one I used to get my printer drivers installed
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to change my default shell to tcsh. I used
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usermod -s /bin/tcsh username
command as given at url
But if I open a new shell, it is still a bash shell.
How do I make my default shell as tcsh?
I used c-shell previously in unix. One of the useful command I used frequently is foreach.> foreach a (`cat list`)>> echo $a need to use bash shell now instead, and realized that I can't use foreach anymore. The command is not found. Does anyone knows if there is similar command / function in bash shell?
View 9 Replies View RelatedSo I open firefox from my bash shell with:
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firefox google.ca
it opens firefox, I can browse, etc.
Now if I alt-tab back into my shell, i can't enter any commands in the shell.
I know that i can do this if I close firefox, but I want to keep working in my shell with firefox still open.
Is this possible?
Ubuntu :: save copy of bash entries / history?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've been looking for how to set this up in bash with no luck so far. I can change what file the history log is written to, and how much history is saved. But it only writes the saved part when bash exits. Instead, I'd like to have bash write that file continuously as each command is entered (and maybe also do an fsync(2) to flush it to disk). That way I can see the command I crashed the box with Anyone know the magical incantation for that?
But there appears to be nothing that I can find there, in the man page, or other searches, that suggest it even can do continuous.
Currently the terminal prompt looks like this:[karlis@karlis-desktop current_folder]$How can I minimize the prompt, so that it only shows $ or # without extra info in square brackets?I checked the preferences for the default Gnome-Terminal and Terminator - there are no settings for this. It is pretty hard to use terminal when working in directories with long names.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've written a bash shell script (code provided below) that gives the user 4 options. However I'm having a little trouble with the code. Right now when they select option 3, to show the date.It loops over and over again.I have to close the terminal window to stop it because it's an infinite loop. How would I prevent this? Also quit doesn't seem to be working either.
#!/bin/bashe
echo -n "Name please? "
read name
echo "Menu for $name[code]............