The history command in Linux is a built-in shell tool that displays a list of commands used in the terminal session.

we will show you how the history command works and different ways to use it.

                      Fig: These are all the variations that you have in "history" command.

This command is used to show the previously executed commands.

In this below Fig-1 you can see we type some commands , then these commands
are list out with event number and time when we use history command

                                 Fig-1: Usage of history command

The below GIF shows the whole process from sourcing scripting file till the output.

                                 GIF-1: giphy of history command  

GitHub Link : https://github.com/muneeb-mbytes/linux_course/blob/b7_Team_BJT/history_commands/history.csh

This command is used to remove the whole history

In this below Fig-2 you can see we type some commands then we type history -c
which remove the all previously executed commands

                             Fig-2: Usage of history -c command  

The below GIF shows the whole process from sourcing scripting file till the output.

                               GIF-2: giphy of history -c command  

GitHub Link : https://github.com/muneeb-mbytes/linux_course/blob/b7_Team_BJT/history_commands/history_clear.csh

This command is used to show the previously executed n command

In this below Fig-3 you can see we use some commands then use the command history 5
which list out the previously latest 5 executed commands

                                     Fig-3: Usage of history 5 command  

The below GIF shows the whole process from sourcing scripting file till the output.

                                     GIF-3: giphy of history 5 command  

GitHub Link : https://github.com/muneeb-mbytes/linux_course/blob/b7_Team_BJT/history_commands/history_number.csh

This command is used to access a particular command from history .

In this below Fig-4 you can see when we type history 5 then previously 5 executed command is list out
with event number . ls command is at event number 100 so, when we type !100 then ls command is executed

                                     Fig-4: Usage of the !<event_num> 

To learn mv command : https://github.com/muneeb-mbytes/linux_course/wiki/13.-mv-command