Questions tagged [history]
History often refers to the list of webpages viewed in a browser or commands used in a particular program. History is often used for undo/redo or back/forward functionality in programs of all kinds.
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in bash moved backwards to some previous line, how to get hist line number?
When I have bash history like
101 eoho 1
102 echo 2
103 echo 3
then
history 1
shows
103 echo 3
Now with hitting twice the up-arrow, I have after the prompt the comnand line
echo 1
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Yahoo Messenger 11 - were files transferred and photos shared stored in chat history online?
I know its old but an answer would be appreciated. In yahoo messenger version 11 (released in 2011), yahoo started storing chats online.
My question is did it also store the photos/media shared with ...
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Why does clipboard history instantly turn itself off/refuse to turn on? Windows 11 Home Edition
I have Windows 11 Home Edition, and pressing WIN+V opens up the "clipboard history" box. It says "Let's get started / Turn on clipboard history to copy and view multiple items." ...
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How can I search for and delete multiple entries in the Chrome history?
Chrome has a feature that lets you filter the history on chrome://history and show a subset of your history. You can then delete one and one entry. Unfortunately, there is no "Select All", ...
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How to configure the user's terminal history in Synology DSM?
The history is limited by 100 entries. In other Linux distros I can configure that in the ~/.bashrc of my user. But in DSM I found no such a file. So, how to set the $HISTSIZE and the $HISTFILESIZE (...
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Office365 Forwarded Email Preference History
Is it possible to see the history of preference changes in the Exchange Admin Center? I have a shared mailbox that was forwarding emails to an internal email address but the original forwarded address ...
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Access Google Chrome history from incognito window
Back in the old days of Chrome, you could view chrome://history straight from an incognito window (it would automatically open a new non-incognito window to view history), but these days it displays a ...
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Clear Browser's OLDER history only
Browser History clean-up tools work backwards.
I do not want to clean/clear/delete anything NEW, I want to delete the old stuff.
At my age. anything I did 10 days ago or more is already forgotten.
A ...
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How do I filter Microsoft Edge history search result by specific website?
How do I filter Microsoft Edge history search result by specific website? For example, only show results from youtube dot com ?
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Clear browsing history from specific site on chrome
I am using Chrome version 114.0.5735.110. I am trying to remove the history, cache, and cookies of a particular website. Google gives the following instructions:
However, there is no longer such an ...
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Is there anyway to clear the history or record of Ctrl+F in Chrome?
My laptop lend to someone else for several days, then after I get it back, Every time I search word in webpages open in Chrome using Ctrl+F, there all ready default searching words appear in the ...
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Tab history in Google Chrome is limited to only 6 items
When I reopen the last session in Goole Chrome and long press the back button on each tab, I can see only 6 items in the drop-down list. I remember the times when it had more than 30 items. How can I ...
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Search history for a date and time
I have a file that was aborted during downloaded. Or something else, this is not relevant to the question.
From the download window, I can tell when it happened, but I can't find a practical way in ...
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in bash: how to execute automatically a command when any commamd is invoked, like by PROMPT_COMMAND, but not awaitng next prompt?
Now I use the PROMPT_COMMAND to automatically execute "history -a" to append the history list to HISTFILE.
As suggested in many internet articles.
Additionally I have arranged that after ...
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Where does Microsoft Edge store InPrivate sessions?
I understand this is a tricky question. I was visiting several important sites on a borrowed device (Windows 11 Pro, Edge up to date), using Microsoft Edge in InPrivate mode (like Chrome's Incognito ...
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Tabs Outliner - restore information from backup files
I have been using Chrome extension Tabs Outliner for a few years without any problems but recently it has failed to load. When I try and open TO it just stays loading. Chrome tells me "page ...
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after creating a new shell bash, sometimes "history -w" does not work, why?
This problem I have since more than 20 years and in all linux distributions.
Even after I have made all settings, e.g. HISTSIZE, HISTFILESIZE, HISTTIMEFORMAT, etc. (HISTFILE I leave unchanged /root/....
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in KDE under Konsole, when re-opeing a crashed bash shell, how to control what /dev/pts/nn number it gets?
I use Kubuntu 20.04 and KNOPPIX 9.1, and always the KDE desktop, and under Konsole 15 windows with shell bash in each.
I always have two levels of bash: the first level which automatically is created ...
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chrome crashed on chromebook (android). How to recover tabs?
I was looking for something over google search page, nothing so far besides the classical 'check your history and open the tabs', the issue I had is that chromebook updated and asked if it can restore ...
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In Bash, how can I read the value of readline variable named `history-size`?
My Bash version I have updated from v590 to version 5.2.15(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
I use Kubuntu 20.04 and KNOPPIX 9.1.
The readline variable history-size can be set to on or off, can be bind ...
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using bash history expansion, how to find history entry beginning with ":"
bash v590
if I write
!:
or
!\:
or
!':'
the error message is
bash: : unrecognized modifier
Regards
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How to selectively redact the current bash session's history?
Pretty often I find myself in this situation:
$ useful command 1
$ useful command 2
$ useless command that I remembered to ignore
$ useful command 3
$ useless command that I forgot to ignore
$
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In Bash, if in a sourced script "set -o history" is written never, once, twice, thrice: What is Bash's correct behavior?
I use bash v590 in Kubuntu 20.04 and KNOPPIX 9.1. In KDE under Konsole many Terminal Emulators xterm-256color are running, in each one a shell bash.
In such a shell a very long script is running ...
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How to increase Alt + Left (go to previous page in Chrome browsing history) from the upper limit of 50?
In Chrome, you can go to a previous page in your browsing history using Alt+Left. It seems that the upper limit on the number of pages Chrome remembers is 50. (Windows 11, desktop PC)
I would need to ...
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How do I delete these types of recent searches in Google Chrome?
I really tried googling things such as "how to delete recent searches on google chrome" but I can't find any results. I have a very low vocabulary. So how do I delete these? Here is a ...
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Make Chrome suggest ALL history results and NO web suggestions in omnibox
For various reasons, I like to completely disable omnibox suggestions from the web. However, I would like to get ALL matching results from my own browser history as suggestions (a behaviour that was ...
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Was the MS-DOS 5 Upgrade really able to "load over any DOS on anyone's PC"?
Microsoft made a comical video in ~1991 for sales people or people running computer stores.
Some of the lyrics go:
loads over any DOS on anyone's PC
Source: https://youtu.be/WxC6PytZMqc?t=192
Is ...
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How can I make the VLC History log store more than the last ten?
By default VLC player only shows the last ten videos under "Media > Open Recent Media"
But what if I'd like to be able to see what I've selected (and choose one of them) from as far back ...
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Where can I view the location history in Windows 10?
Windows 10 may track the geolocation:
Where can I view the location history in Windows 10?
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What drove the adoption of 64-bit instruction sets? [closed]
In the 2000s 64-bit ISAs displace 32-bit architectures. Intel tried and failed to make IA-64 and AMD won with its x86-64. 64-bit was important.
Why did 64-bit ISA displace 32-bit ISAs? How were they ...
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How to remove suggestions from Firefox's address bar history
When typing a URL in Firefox's address bar nowadays, the suggestions tend to be noisy and polluted with a lot of unwanted entries, some from years ago and some that are just outdated.
I tried going ...
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Want to delete Chrome history but retain data from one site only
I have some mystery issue with something in my Chrome data that affects certain sites. It only affects Chrome and one profile so I have narrowed it down to there.
I get an error like this:
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Recover lost form data in Chrome (macOS / SIP enabled)
I had lost form data on a website (Chrome/macOS), and was unable to follow the recommended resolution for Linux/Mac due to SIP being enabled (relevant comment). However, the associated page/tab was ...
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Chrome History - Is there a way to see the HTML of the pages visited?
Is there a way to see the HTML of the pages visited in Chrome history (not just the URL)?
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Firefox: URL in URL dropdown, but not in history: can not be deleted
There's a URL in the dropdown menu that I can not find in the history. Usually I can delete a URL from history and it also disappears from the dropdown menu. How can I get rid of this URL?
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Firefox Sync's history limit
I just performed a clean install of my Linux distribution's upgraded version. I signed in to Firefox account and started sync. While browsing my library, I found history items from my old Firefox ...
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How to get the "hosts" of the Google Chrome history entries
I know I can export the history and import it to Firefox.
In what method can I get every visited host of every URL of the chrome history. Host means roughly the domain of any URL.
What is host?
To ...
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Windows File History backup size much smaller than Windows's own disk size?
I just set up "File History" on my Windows (Windows 11) laptop computer using Control Panel > File History. I did not put anything in the 'Exclude folders', so it should keep a history of ...
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can employers see search history from just chrome login
I've been working remotely, and happened to be looking at some wholesome videos after hours on my personal computer on my own personal home network when I realized that particular Chrome window with ...
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Is there a way to save and restore web browser tabs INCLUDING THEIR HISTORY (and other possible tab data) to a text file?
Upgrading from Linux Mint 18 came with loosing all my navigator tabs. Luckily I had a backup of my old distribution. However, I'm now stuck with it and more and more things stop working.
I know there ...
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How to recover a window of firefox?
By mistake, I have closed a window of firefox with more than 100 tabs opened; I stopped the firefox proccess and restart the program, but it only recovers the others windows, not the one I close (...
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Chrome sync: is mobile history merged into my desktop's?
I am trying to save mobile chrome's browsing history but I heard unless I root my android
phone, I can't.
So I decided to use Chrome's sync option.
But the concern is that I don't want to lose my ...
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How can I restore a Google Chrome URL-bar suggestion I accidentally removed?
Sometimes after typing a web address in Chrome and pressing tab a few times, I end up on the "Remove Suggestion" button and accidentally remove the suggestion I was trying to select. How can ...
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How can I see the history of the NordVPN servers I've connected with?
I'd like to see the history of the NordVPN servers (IPs, not just the area) I've connected with in the NordVPN desktop program. I use the latest version of the NordVPN desktop program (6.38.15.0) with ...
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Why does `history -s` wipe my command history?
I am working on a project where the STG and LIVE environments have multiple instances, including a central 'gfs' server where you can do database admin
You access all of the instances via a 'bastion' ...
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How to remove GNU screen directory movements from bash history
Whenever I launch GNU screen, and do some directory movements within it, I get tons of these kinds of lines appended to my bash history:
16469 2021-06-03 10:29:17 - cd "`printf '%b' '\0057home\...
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How to export the full skype chat history of skype 8 on windows 10?
I would like to export and view my complete skype chat history without using skype somehow.
I tried skype's online chat history exporter (https://secure.skype.com/en/data-export) in combination with ...
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Is there a way to export Slack conversation history?
A colleague has announced they are leaving the company in 2 weeks. A few weeks ago, another colleague left the company, and his Slack account immediately disappeared, and I could no longer see any of ...
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How to prevent manual deletion of individual items from Chrome Browsing History?
I am monitoring my ward's usage of Internet on my device. I would like it to be all transparent that is saved in history and such that it can't be deleted by my ward. Avoiding access entirely to the ...
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Is there anyway to clear my Flash Projector history?
Ever since Flash died, I have been using the flash projector provided by the Adobe people. The flash projector is very excellent, except for the fact that it makes it obvious what you have been using ...
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