Configuration

We can add the date each command was run to the bash history

$HOME/.bashrc:
--------------
...
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000

# write stamp information associated with each history entry    <---
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "                                   <---
...

_$: cd
_$: source .bashrc
_$: history
 ...
 2001  24/04/14 17:01:06 vi .bashrc
 2002  24/04/14 17:01:22 source .bashrc
 2003  24/04/14 17:01:25 history

Command line history ordered by date

a) awk + sed

_$: history | awk '{$1=""; print}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort -t " " -n -k1.7 -k1.5 -k1 -k2

b) sed + cut

_$: history | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | cut -d" " -f3- | sort -n -k1.7 -k1.4 -k1 -k2