Well after a LONG search and not being able to find HISTTIMEFORMAT anywhere on the man bash page, I reverted to the internet. What I found was that this is only valid if you are at bash level 3.x. So I do a rpm -q bash and get the following: bash-2.05b-305.14 So I guess I'm out. We are sles 9 sp3 where must I be to be at bash 3.x?? thanks Mace
--- Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awesome! Thanks! (Gotta throw something juicy at > Malcolm occasionally to > confirm he is still lurking.) > > -- R; > > > > > > Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > > 12/14/2006 01:54 PM > Please respond to Linux on 390 Port > <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > From > Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To > LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > cc > > Subject > Re: a history question > > > > > > > Richard Troth writes: > > Like Rd said, no timestamps in BASH history. > (Other shells have history > > too, and still no timestamps.) > > Er, both bash and tcsh can timestamp history. tcsh > does so by > default and bash does so if you set HISTTIMEFORMAT. > man bash says > HISTTIMEFORMAT > If this variable is set and not null, its > value is used as a > format string for strftime(3) to print the > time stamp associ- > ated with each history entry displayed by the > history builtin. > If this variable is set, time stamps are > written to the history > file so they may be preserved across shell > sessions. > Often a bit of care needs to be taken to consider > what behaviour > is wanted for saving history between sessions, > multiple shells, > login v. non-login shells etc. The man pages for > tcsh and bash go > into the details. > > --Malcolm > > -- > Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
