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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:12:42 -0400
From:      "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca>
To:        "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reconstruct a bash_history file
Message-ID:  <e327a5772b0e182b734551e52100fa8b.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20171102214634.dc4877cf.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <cc029c227a6b8de747426ba4cf9a7066.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20171102214634.dc4877cf.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On Thu, November 2, 2017 16:46, Polytropon wrote:

>
> This version is easier to read:
>
> 	cat history.txt | while read LINE; do
> 		DATETIME=`echo $LINE | cut -d ':' -f 1-3`
> 		TIMESTAMP=`date -j -f "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" "${DATETIME}" "+#%s"`
> 		COMMAND=`echo $LINE | cut -d ':' -f 4-`
> 		echo "${TIMESTAMP}"
> 		echo "${COMMAND}" | sed "s/^ //"
> 	done > bash_history.txt
>
> It features the "useless use of cat" line the one-liner. ;-)
>

Worked great.  Thank you very much.  I have added this one to my daybook.


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