Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-19 Thread David
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 22:15, wrote: > On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > > > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > > > Obviou

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/4/20 10:14 pm, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stor

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Apr 2020 at 09:31:10 (-0400), songbird wrote: > David wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >> I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > >> But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > >> Obviously its stored in a f

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread songbird
David wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. >> But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". >> Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > > Reading https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 give

Re: [Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:52:23 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/18/2020 05:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > > TIA > > U

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > * so if a use

Re: [Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:52:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > There's one thing I don't understand - erasure of previous history. > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 states it as: > >... it overwrites the existing history with the new version. That's because it reads the history

[Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/18/2020 05:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stored in a file. Where? TIA Using 'cat ~/.bash_history' gives desired format (i.e. without the line numbers

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread David
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? Reading https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 gives some tips that might

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 18/04/2020 11:19, Richard Owlett wrote: I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stored in a file. Where? TIA Well, for Bash, the file is at ~/.bash_history (as set in $HISTFILE), but, bew

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 18 Apr, 2020 at 05:19:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > TIA Use the 'history' command, or 'cat ~/.bash_history'. Assumes

Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stored in a file. Where? TIA