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Great points I will look to add. Thanks for taking the time here. Really helpful and useful. I am going to show nano as you say it’s the easiest. Might touch on VIM but with more links to resources as that’s a different ball game.

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Thanks for doing this. It's really helpful.

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On servers to trace back when was a command executed, it can be useful to append the date and time to each command in the history file.

The following system variable controls this behaviour:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d-%m-%Y %T "

You can easily add to your bash_profile:

echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d-%m-%Y %T "' >> ~/.bash_profile

So as useful to allow the history file grow bigger:

echo 'export HISTSIZE=100000' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export HISTFILESIZE=10000000' >> ~/.bash_profile

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Thank you for your contributions I have added them both to day15.md.

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