Sort of related, I like to put this snippet in my PROMPT_COMMAND variable: PROMPT_COMMAND='echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S") $(pwd) $(HISTTIMEFORMAT= history

Sort of related, I like to put this snippet in my PROMPT_COMMAND variable: PROMPT_COMMAND='echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S") $(pwd) $(HISTTIMEFORMAT= history 1)" >> ~/.logs/bash/bash-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log' I forget where I learned this. What it does is write the bash history to a log file, with the date/time, directory of the command, and the command. Occasionally it has helped me find where a file is that I was working on :)