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title: Eternal bash history
date: 2007-10-18 11:24:00.00 -8
tags: posts 
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[Debian Administration](http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/543) has great advice for requesting that bash keep a history of all commands recorded. Add this to your .bashrc!

> `export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%s " PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND ; }"'echo $$ $USER \ "$(history 1)" >> ~/.bash_eternal_history'`