Can we find in history command the dates & timing of the command execution

Question

This command does not give time & date when command was executed. Is this possible to check date & time with history command or other command.

$ history
    1  cd /strswork/strsapp/applications
    2  ll
    3  cd UM1
    4  ll
    5  cd DEV/oldlogs
    6  ls -ltr
    7  cd ..
    8  ls -ltr
    9  tail -10 log.txt
   10  more log.txt

What shell are you using? – Kusalananda Oct 09 '19 at 09:03 — Kusalananda, Oct 09 '19 at 09:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 09 '19 at 08:38

The history command reads from the ~/.bash_history file which only stores the commands, one on each line. It does not store any timing information.

There are tools that can log both commands and times e.g. auditd (How to track/log commands executed on a shell?)

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 09 '19 at 10:25

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edit .bash_profile or /etc/profile
add HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T " end of the line. and refresh it with the below command:

source /etc/profile

edited Oct 09 '19 at 10:25

GAD3R

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answered Oct 09 '19 at 10:20

rahuls36

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Can we find in history command the dates & timing of the command execution

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