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lastcomm \- show last commands executed in reverse order
[ command name ] ... [user name] ... [terminal name] ...
gives information on previously executed commands.
prints information about all the commands recorded
during the current accounting file's lifetime. The \fI-f\fP option
causes \fIlastcomm\fP to read from a file other than the default
If called with arguments, only accounting entries with a
name, user name, or terminal name are printed.
lastcomm a.out root ttyd0
would produce a listing of all the
executions of commands named
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 time used by the process (in seconds).
The time the process exited.
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 without a following
``C'' indicates the command was run in PDP-11 compatibility mode
``D'' indicates the command terminated with the generation of a
file, and ``X'' indicates the command was terminated with a signal.