Output of history command in iTerm

Question

I am using 'iterm' as my terminal at macosx. But I don't see all my command I type when I do 'history' and I don't see my previous command (copy and paste) using the UP arrow key?

Is there a way to fix it?

Solution

Check you home dir in iTerm.

$ cd ~
$ ls -la | grep .bash_history

If the above command found the file you can do the following command

$ cat .bash_history

This will show your history. Not in the exact same format as 'history' but it will do I think. Or you can search within your history with the shortcut CTRL + r. It will show something as (reverse-i-search). Type your command you did earlier and it will return a result.

Note: Some terminals have a different shell. For instance zsh. If that's the case you need to search .zsh_history

Comments

[Bill Reardon]

Can you give us a repeatable example?

[Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski]

History is handled by your shell (most likely GNU bash), not by your terminal program.

[juanpablo]

I have same problem

[saywhatnow]

Bear in mind that if you use a bash alternative, you'll need to use it's history equivalent e.g. with ZSH, replace .bash_history with .zsh_history.

[Jonathan]

Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize.

[Community]

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