grep a sh_history

[sumgirl]

Anyone know how to grep a sh_history file? Apparently the internal format of these files isnt plain text or something, because I cant get grep to return anything. Silly question probably, but its seems like pretty straight forward thing so I am not sure exactly how I could be doing anything wrong.

 

[dickiebird]

Try grep -n a_string ~/.sh_history

HTH

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[noober]

no dice...thanks anyway though.

 

[needcoffee]

Did you try cat .sh_history | grep string ? It works fine on 5.2. Do you have permission to read the file?

Time to make the Java...
needcoffee

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,
what about this command

your_prompt#: cat -v /path/to/.sh_history |grep "pattern"

Regards

 

[slt589]

can you cat the file and see normal text?

There are special characters in the file, but your command history is in plain text. (well, it is on every flavour of *nix I've worked on)

Maybe the string you're grepping for doesn't exist. Aged out, maybe? What's your HISTSIZE set to ?

I'm assuming this is korn shell.

 

[blasvinas]

Hi,

Try this:

fc -l -number | grep string. Where number display the last number of commands in the .sh_history file and string is the word you are looking for. e.g.

fc -l -100 | grep chmod

Look for the word chmod in the last 100 commands in the .sh_history file.

I hope this help you. Bye.