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Bash 3.0 released

Bash 3.0 released

Posted Aug 12, 2004 17:49 UTC (Thu) by Wills (guest, #1813)
Parent article: Bash 3.0 released

> Another new feature of interest is the addition of history
> timestamps. This allows users to see when commands were run,
> which can provide some useful and interesting information.

Without implying any sort of criticism of bash, I would like to note that history timestamps have been in (t)csh for c.15 years and arrays, which bash didn't have until bash 2.0 in 1997, for c.10 years.


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