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Stefano Barone: cool guitar tunes

October 15th, 2009 Comments off

Stefano Barone does things I never new possible with a guitar. You can buy his CD at CANdYRAT Music. More modern guitar music for your browsing pleasure with CANdYRAT on Myspace. Wow, just wow…

Auditing shell commands in bash

October 15th, 2009 Comments off

Bash has a built in history function that records recent shell commands. But by default it only retains a raw list of those without attaching additional information. You can add a timestamps to each command by adding something like…

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echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F-%R%t"' >> ~/.bashrc

… and then after reloading your shell session you will see something like …

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:~$ history | tail -n 2
 502  2009-10-15-11:26 vim .bashrc
 503  2009-10-15-11:26 history | tail -n 2

You can see much more about what you can do with bash and the history command, including redirecting history commands in the bash and date man pages for your favourite linux distro.

Update: Another option on a debian system (possibly others) would be to use the snoopy package, as described at http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/88

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