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LASTCOMM(1) General Commands Manual LASTCOMM(1)

lastcommshow last commands executed in reverse order

lastcomm [-f file] [command ...] [user ...] [terminal ...]

Lastcomm gives information on previously executed commands. With no arguments, lastcomm prints information about all the commands recorded during the current accounting file's lifetime.

Option:

file
Read from file rather than the default accounting file.

If called with arguments, only accounting entries with a matching command name, user name, or terminal name are printed. So, for example:

lastcomm a.out root ttyd0

would produce a listing of all the executions of commands named a.out by user root on the terminal ttyd0.

For each process entry, the following are printed.

The flags are encoded as follows: ``S'' indicates the command was executed by the super-user, ``F'' indicates the command ran after a fork, but without a following exec, ``C'' indicates the command was run in PDP-11 compatibility mode (VAX only), ``D'' indicates the command terminated with the generation of a core file, and ``X'' indicates the command was terminated with a signal.

/var/account/acct
Default accounting file.

last(1), sigvec(2), acct(5), core(5)

The lastcomm command appeared in 3.0BSD.

BSD 3 June 6, 1993 LASTCOMM(1)