Having a history of shell commands is a great idea. It is, of course, enormously handy when you have to run something repetitively or you make a simple mistake that needs correction. However, as I’ve ...

Linux shells like bash have a convenient way of remembering commands that you type, making it easy to run them again without having to retype them. Just use the history command (which is a bash ...

When the shell adds lines to the history file (.bash_history), does it add new content to the beginning of the file or at the end? (ascending or descending by date?) ...

It'll run every command in the .bash_history file in your PWD. If you're in your home directory, this will run every command you've run that's in history.