Reconstruct a bash_history file

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Thu Nov 2 19:14:01 UTC 2017


I wish to reconstruct a bash_history file for a user who has
HISTTIMEFORMAT=%F %T:.  I have a history log file having the following
format:
. . .
 2014-06-19 16:09:25: whois playford.de
 2014-06-20 08:24:00: man xpdf
 2014-06-23 08:22:16: su -l
 2014-06-24 09:33:27: cd Desktop
 2014-06-25 09:22:25: su -l
 2014-06-26 12:15:28: su -l
 2014-06-27 08:48:40: su -l
 2014-06-30 08:18:04:
 2014-07-02 15:40:57: history | grep enscript
 2014-07-03 08:38:55: ll
 2014-07-04 09:29:04: su -l
 2014-07-07 09:33:34: ssh -Y xnet241
 2014-07-08 08:29:59: su -l
 2014-07-09 06:53:46: su -l
 2014-07-10 11:20:20: whois arcom.com.br
 2014-07-11 10:02:24: su -l
 2014-07-14 09:58:27: su -l
 2014-07-15 08:46:38: su -l
 2014-07-16 10:31:52: sshtn xnet241
 2014-07-17 09:50:23: history | grep PORT
. . .

Is there a way to recreate a valid bash_history file from this data
and preserve the time stamps?  If so then how?

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