Shell History

paraiso · 07-27-2006, 03:34 AM

Hello,

For some reason or another, my shell history got deleted. I don't know what could be the reason. Is it possible to retrieve those commands history? and where in the file system is located the commands history file?

Thank you in advance for your help!

spooon · 07-27-2006, 03:38 AM

Well if they're deleted, I don't think you're going to find them.

It depends on your shell. For bash, it's in ~/.bash_history by default.

prozac · 07-27-2006, 03:39 AM

try
"echo $HISTFILE"
this will show you which history file bash is using. you say your shell history got deleted. did you delete it accidently or somebody else did that maliciously. check it out.

paraiso · 07-27-2006, 04:17 AM

Thanks for your answers!
I checked the history file, the commands have been erased. I was the only one to have access to the machine, I don't remember at all erasing the history.

Cheers