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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) manual page, as well  as  arbi-
     trary 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 executed
     by the super-user, ``F'' indicates the command ran after a fork, but  with-
     out  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, start-
     ing from the time lastcomm was executed.  However, if  lastcomm  reads  en-
     tries  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 ports 15.quarterly	  May 17, 2012			     LASTCOMM(1)

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