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How to check history of command which used in linux terminal

How to check all commands which I used
Use this  command.

# history

history command example
Obvious from output, the history command do not output the time stamp with the log of last executed commands. Any solution for this? Yeah! Run the below command.

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




Explanation of commands and switches.
history – GNU History Library
HISTIMEFORMAT – Environmental Variable
 

%d – Day
%m – Month
%y – Year
%T – Time Stamp
 

source – in short send the contents of file to shell
.bashrc – is a shell script that BASH runs whenever it is started interactively.
history Command Logs
Byrockatardevil