Re: How to run something before invoking the inputted command?

[Andreas Schwab]

"Clark J. Wang" <dearvoid@gmail.com> writes:

> For example, in the interactive shell, I want to track the time when every
> inputted command is invoked. So I want to run a `date' command before
> actually invoking the inputted command. For now I have to do like this:
>
> $ date; command1
> $ date; command2
>
> Is there an easy way to do that?

You can get from the history output, if you set HISTTIMEFORMAT.

Andreas.

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