Redirection: Saving History

Saving History as myhistory.txt

Using the history command and the redirection write operator >, create a new file named myhistory.txt that contains the full record of your history.

Solution

history > myhistory.txt

Verification of myhistory.txt

How can you verify that myhistory.txt contains the history of your current shell?

cat myhistory.txt

  908  ls
  909  clear
  910  echo "Paul" > myname.txt
  911  ls
  912  cat myname.txt
  913  echo "firstName=Paul" > myname.txt
  914  cat myname.txt
  915  echo "lastName=Matthews" >> myname.txt
  916  cat myname.txt
  917  history > myhistory.txt