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LASTCOMM(1)		    General Commands Manual		   LASTCOMM(1)

NAME
       lastcomm	-- show	last commands executed

SYNOPSIS
       lastcomm	 [-EScesu]  [-f	 file]	[+format]  [command  ...]  [user  ...]
		[terminal ...]

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

       The following options are available:

       -E      Print the time the process exited.

       -S      Print the time the process started.

       -c      Print the amount	of cpu time used by the	process.

       -e      Print the amount	of elapsed time	used by	the process.

       -s      Print the amount	of system time used by the process.

       -u      Print the amount	of user	time used by the process.

       -f file
	       Read  from  file	rather than the	default	/var/account/acct.  If
	       file is a single	dash (`-') lastcomm reads  accounting  entries
	       from the	standard input.

       An  operand  with  a leading plus sign (`+') is followed	a user-defined
       format string which specifies  the  format  in  which  to  display  the
       process's  start	 or exit date and time.	 The format string may contain
       any of the conversion specifications described in the strftime(3)  man-
       ual page, as well as arbitrary text.

       If  no  options	are specified, -cS is assumed.	If lastcomm is invoked
       with arguments, only accounting entries with a matching	command	 name,
       user name, or terminal name are printed.	 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 name of the user who ran the process.
	     	 Flags,	as accumulated by the  accounting  facilities  in  the
		 system.
	     	 The command name under	which the process was called.
	     	 The  amount of	CPU (-c), wall (-e), system (-s), or user (-u)
		 time used by the process (in seconds).
	     	 The time the process started (-S) or exited (-E).

       The flags are encoded as	follows: ``S'' indicates the command was  exe-
       cuted  by the super-user, ``F'' indicates the command ran after a fork,
       but without a following exec(3),	``D'' indicates	the command terminated
       with the	generation of a	core file, and ``X'' indicates the command was
       terminated with a signal.

       By default, accounting entries are printed  going  backwards  in	 time,
       starting	 from  the  time  lastcomm was executed.  However, if lastcomm
       reads entries from its standard input, then entries are printed in  the
       order they are read.

FILES
       /var/account/acct  default accounting file

EXAMPLES
       The command
	     lastcomm -Ee
       will  print  the	 exit  time and	elapsed	time of	each command logged in
       /var/account/acct, while
	     tail -f -c	0 /var/account/acct | lastcomm -f -
       will print details of each terminating command.

SEE ALSO
       last(1),	sigaction(2), strftime(3), acct(5), core(5)

HISTORY
       The lastcomm command appeared in	3.0BSD.

FreeBSD	13.2			 May 17, 2012			   LASTCOMM(1)

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