How to use the history command on CentOS 8

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Karim Buzdar
Oct 28, 2020

The ???history??? command is used to display the terminal history. It keeps the history of all terminal commands executed on your system and allows users to replay or reuse previously executed commands on the terminal without having to type them all again.

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Karim Buzdar

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