Quick Tip: Track Your Bash History

Sometimes, you want to look back in time and see what commands you ran in the past. Thanks to the
history
command built into the Linux shell, you can do that with ease.
$ history
...
396 git pull --all
397 git branch -a
398 git push origin :header-revamp
399 git branch -a
400 git push origin :nav-dropdown
401 git branch -d nav-dropdown
402 git fetch -p origin
403 git branch -a
404 git checkout front-page
405 git branch --unset-upstream
406 git checkout develop
...
You can easily search through the output by piping to the grep
command.
$ history | grep ssh
482 ssh
492 ssh -p xxxx [email protected]
702 ssh -p xxxx [email protected]
770 ssh -p xxxx
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