This topic describes the history command in gfsh, the VMware Tanzu GemFire command-line interface.

Use this command to show or save the command history.

You can save this history to a file which you can later use as a script.

A history of commands that have been executed successfully is also logged in the .geode/.gfsh.history file within the home directory of the user running gfsh.

Availability: Online or offline.

Syntax:

history [--file=<history text file>]

Name Description Default Value
‑‑file File to which the history is to be saved.  
‑‑clear When set to true, clears the history of gfsh commands. false

Table 1. History Parameters

Example Commands:

history
history --file=./mycommands.gfsh;

Sample Output:

gfsh>history --file=./mycommands.gfsh
Wrote successfully to file ./mycommands.gfsh
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