Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 19:17:01 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jon O." <netcmd@networkcommand.com> To: Arash Farahmand <afarah@mictlan.sfsu.edu> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time and history Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.990925191501.24695A-100000@mckenzie.waystation.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.990925081211.9390B-100000@xolotl.sfsu.edu>
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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Arash Farahmand wrote: |Greg, | |On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: | |> On Saturday, 25 September 1999 at 6:05:52 +0000, Jon O. wrote: |> > I just have a small suggestion. The history command shows the time |> > commands are executed and I have found this very useful in the past. |> |> I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about here. history is |> a command in some shells, but I don't know any other use, and the |> shell history commands don't associate times with the history items. | |Please correct me if I'm wrong, but upon issuing the 'history' command |from tcsh, three columns are shown on the screen: command (or prompt or |event) number, the "time" the command was issued, and the command itself. This is what I was referring to. I forgot that not everyone uses tcsh and was unaware bash does not report the time. I have used this many times to do post-mortems on dead machine and the like, but I would find it much more useful if it reported the second as well. Thanks, Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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