How to see time stamps in bash history? Rumi, April 22, 2020 Is there any way I can see at what time the commands were executed from the bash history? We can see the order but is there any way I can get the time also? Bottom-Line: Execution time in the Bash history: HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T " # for e.g. “29/02/99 23:59:59” HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T " # for e.g. “1999-02-29 23:59:59” To make the change permanent for the current user run: echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc # or respectively echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc To test the effects run: history Administrations Configurations (Linux) History