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TL;DR

history

Command-line history. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-History-Builtins.html.

  • Display the commands history list with line numbers:

history

  • Display the last 20 commands (in Zsh it displays all commands starting from the 20th):

history 20

  • Display history with timestamps in different formats (only available in Zsh):

history -d|f|i|E

  • clear the commands history list (only for current Bash shell):

history -c

  • Over[w]rite history file with history of current Bash shell (often combined with history -c to purge history):

history -w

  • delete the history entry at the specified offset:

history -d offset

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