Here's the format I see in my history. #1296950184 for i in 1 2 do echo $i done #1296950194 exit
HISTTIMEFORMAT is: HISTTIMEFORMAT='[%m.%d.%y] %T ' bash -version is: GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. jon. On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Jon Seymour <jon.seym...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the version I was using a line that began with # and perhaps a timestamp > separated each entry of the history in a way that in principle preserved > information about the entry boundary even though this information is not used > by bash on the subsequent start. > > jon. > > On 06/02/2011, at 11:24, Michael Witten <mfwit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 18:02, Jon Seymour <jon.seym...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The version I tried on Linux 3.2.25 does have a .bash_history >>> format that could support it, but it still behaved the same way. >> >> How do you mean? >> >> I'm running bash version "4.1.9(2)-release" on GNU/Linux, and the >> resulting history file doesn't seem like it's storing anything more >> than lines of text naively dumped from the multi-line example. >
