HISTORY(1) HISTORY(1)
NAME
history - print file names from the dump
SYNOPSIS
history [ -Dabcemnw ] [ -fu ] [ -d dumpfs ] [ -t snaptag ] [
-s yyyymmdd ] files ...
DESCRIPTION
History prints the names, dates, and sizes, and modifier of
all versions of the named files, looking backwards in time,
stored in the dump file system. If the file exists in the
main tree, the first line of output will be its current
state. For example,
history /adm/users
produces
May 14 15:29:18 EDT 2001 /adm/users 10083 [adm]
May 14 15:29:18 EDT 2001 /n/dump/2001/0515/adm/users 10083 [adm]
May 11 17:26:24 EDT 2001 /n/dump/2001/0514/adm/users 10481 [adm]
May 10 16:40:51 EDT 2001 /n/dump/2001/0511/adm/users 10476 [adm]
...
The -D option causes diff(1) to be run for each adjacent
pair of dump files. The options -abcemnw are passed through
to diff; the little-used diff option -f is replaced by the
functionality described below, and the -r option is disal-
lowed.
The -u option causes times to be printed in GMT (UT) rather
than local time.
The -d option selects some other dump file system such as
/n/bootesdump.
The -t option selects some other snapshot tag within the
file system. If not specified, it defaults to the main
snapshot tag.
The -f option is accepted but ignored by compatibility with
other history implementations.
Finally, the -s option sets the starting (most recent) date
for the output.
EXAMPLES
Check how often a user has been logged in.
history /usr/ches/tmp
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FILES
/n/dump
SOURCE
/rc/bin/history
SEE ALSO
fs(4), yesterday(1)
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