How can I view history in terminal for specific date?

Question

How can I view the terminal history for a specific date?

For example today is 4-apr and I want to view the history of 31-mar

Solution

You can set the history format to include the date using the following:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

Then filter for a specific date using grep:

history | grep "31/03"

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More info:

• Note From @muru and @Kamil- HISTTIMEFORMAT should already have been set during this period, or bash will just use today's date

• Bash Man - HISTTIMEFORMAT

• nixCraft - Bash History - Display Date and Time

Comments

[muru]

Note that HISTTIMEFORMAT should already have been set during this period, or bash will just use today's date.

[Yaron]

@Kamil - thanks for the message about HISTTIMEFORMAT!

[Yaron]

@kulwinder1986 - if I've answered your question please accept / up-vote my answer.