=== Showing History Time === When running bash command "history", it regularly excludes the time stamps. \\ \\ === Session Specific TimeStamps === You can set this by running the following command: HISTTIMEFORMAT=format For example, the following will set your current session in the specified format: HISTTIMEFORMAT="%y/%m/%d %T Running history will now show you time stamps and date stamps: # history | tail -3 1055 17/09/16 09:46:23 echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bash_profile ; source ~/.bash_profile 1056 17/09/16 09:46:27 HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y" 1057 17/09/16 09:46:30 history | tail -3 \\ === Permanent Time Stamp === If you wish to set the time stamp permanently then you can run the following command for the user you are logged in as: echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bash_profile ; source ~/.bash_profile