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Retrieve Linux command line history by date

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Problem

I want to see what I typed on my bash command line on a certain day a week ago. Is there a way to retrieve command line history? Something like below, perhaps?

Error Output

> history --include-date | grep 2012-02-27`

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By default, logs the time when you ran a command, but doesn't display it. The reason for this is when you run the command, it looks for an environment variable called , which tells it how to format time. If the value is or not set, then by default iā€¦

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