Install history command package
Solution 1
The history
command is a feature of bash. For some reason, Your system might be running dash instead of bash. Perhaps, you need to change your login shell to /bin/bash (should have been the default). Type the below command in terminal:
chsh -s /bin/bash
Then, log out and log in.
If you did not install bash in your system, you can install it by the command:
sudo apt-get install bash
Although, you can use other shell like zsh or tcsh (including history).
Solution 2
What you are referring to is bash
own history, which is typically saved in ~/.bash_history
file, and this functionality is embedded into bash
itself. No need to install additional packages.
Please have a look at this answer on how to check and enable bash
history.
Also, there is a chance that you are not using bash
, but some other shell. Use chsh
command to change your shell.
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capdragon
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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capdragon over 1 year
I have Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS running on a proxmox OpenVZ container.
I imagine it does not come with history because the up arrow on the command line gives me
^[[A
plus...
$ history -sh: history: not found
But I get this when I trying to install.
$ sudo apt-get install history Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package history
What is the correct package name I need to install to get history working?
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bomben over 3 yearsThis worked, although I don't know why. Because I had no history with my user but when I changed to
root
I had. So could it be two users use different shells?