Bash history can be very useful to re-trace steps performed on the system, but one of the issues is that commands are not logged in real-time but after ending a session. Also history output does not include date and time which is really useful for debugging.
In order to solve this you will need to append 3 lines to your ~/.bashrc file:
shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;$PROMPT_COMMAND"
export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T 'In order for this to become active you need either to log out and log back in our execute:
source ~/.bashrcAfter this all your commands will be logged in real-time and output of history command will have date & time information in following format:
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS history