can not get history output when executed history by SSH command

Question

for example: when

ssh xxx@192.168.0.123 "histroy"

it get nothing,

but when

ssh xxx@192.168.0.123

and then

history

it get a lot.

any one tell me how to get the history by one line command?

Tom Wijsman · Answer 1 · 2011-11-01 14:07:10Z

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ssh xxx@192.168.0.123 'export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history; set -o history; history'

answered Oct 26 '11 at 5:57

GreyBeardedGeek

	wow, works like magic! – yeer Oct 26 '11 at 6:34
	@yeer `ssh xxx@192.168.0.123 "cat ~/.bash_history \| nl"` also works, try that out. – chown Oct 26 '11 at 18:34
	Could you provide some explanation about what your code does? – Tom Wijsman Nov 1 '11 at 14:06

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chown · Answer 2 · 2011-10-26 03:01:20Z

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You can cat the file that the history command reads from and then number each line:

ssh xxx@192.168.0.123 "cat ~/.bash_history | nl"

answered Oct 26 '11 at 3:01

	yes, but it can not get the time stamps. – yeer Oct 26 '11 at 3:05
	did not work :( – yeer Oct 26 '11 at 4:04
	hi chown, i did not add any formatting, i wanna to see the output first, the formatting is secondary. – yeer Oct 26 '11 at 6:33

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