On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 20:02, Michael Witten <mfwit...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, if you run `history', you'll not only get the commands in the > history list, but you'll also get the time at which the commands > were last run (formatted according to "$HISTTIMEFORMAT"). > > In other words, it's not helpeful in this case.
Of course, I suppose bash could be taught to build multi-line comments from command lines that share the same timestamp, but given the nature of how that information is recorded, it seems like it may not be a very robust solution.