History

The history command prints or saves previous commands in the history list, or reexecutes a previous entry in the list. To modify the behavior of this command, see set history.

Input lines with history as their first command are not stored in the command history.

Examples:

history               # show the complete history
history 5             # show last 5 entries in the history
history quiet 5       # show last 5 entries without entry numbers
history "hist.gp"     # write the complete history to file hist.gp
history "hist.gp" append # append the complete history to file hist.gp
history 10 "hist.gp"  # write last 10 commands to file hist.gp
history 10 "|head -5 >>diary.gp" # write 5 history commands using pipe
history ?load         # show all history entries starting with "load"
history ?"set c"      # like above, several words enclosed in quotes
hist !"set xr"        # like above, several words enclosed in quotes
hist !55              # reexecute the command at history entry 55