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Bailando

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2013-08-19

Posts: 133

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How can I obtain information about the recently finished commands?

How can I get information about the recently finished jobs / bash commands? (eg. date / time of termination)

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: How can I obtain information about the recently finished commands?

"man bash" see HISTTIMEFORMAT. That may get you near to where you want to be.

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: How can I obtain information about the recently finished commands?

@ vacant, while that will put a timestamp for each command executed, it won't help with finished commands.

@ Bailando, you'll probably have to play around with ps output.

Last edited by x33a (2014-01-01 11:07:16)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: How can I obtain information about the recently finished commands?

$ e echo foo
foo
$ type e
e is a function
e () 
{ 
    $@ && echo $@ - $(date) >> test.txt
}
$ cat test.txt 
echo foo - Wed Jan 1 12:10:54 CET 2014
$ e echo bar
bar
$ cat test.txt 
echo foo - Wed Jan 1 12:10:54 CET 2014
echo bar - Wed Jan 1 12:11:09 CET 2014
$ e htop

<here I do something with htop for a little while>

$ cat test.txt 
echo foo - Wed Jan 1 12:10:54 CET 2014
echo bar - Wed Jan 1 12:11:09 CET 2014
htop - Wed Jan 1 12:15:14 CET 2014

Last edited by karol (2014-01-01 11:20:36)

teateawhy

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From: GER

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 1,138

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Re: How can I obtain information about the recently finished commands?

Do you want to know how long a command is running?

time yourcommand