You could use tail -n (number of lines back) filename 

ex : tail -n 3 .bash_history would show you the last 3 commands that you typed.

or something like this.

history > tail
tail -n 3 tail >last3

Hope this helps.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bushman [mailto:bob@traxel.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:06 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: syntax for outputing past bash commands to a .txt file


You can also use the "history" and "fc" commands, which
do all sorts of stupid pet tricks.

http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/html_chapter/bashref_7.html

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Derek Neighbors wrote:

> .bash_history in your home directory
>
> -Derek
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 07:22:13 -0700 (PDT)
> Alpha Zenon Sanchez <alpha_zenon@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I know I've seen it before on the internet somewhere
> > or perhaps it was this discussion group.  I can't
> > recall...
> >
> > My question is this:
> >
> > What's the exact syntax to print to a text file, a
> > history of commands you've typed on the command shell?
> >
> > Or is there a file in my OS (Mandrake 8.1) where I can
> > view like say....my last 20 or so commands?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Alpha Z Sanchez
> >
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