How to view the bash_history for root?

Here's the quick way:

sudo less /root/.bash_history

linux bash unix amazon-ec2

You can run the history command to see the current users history.

linux bash unix amazon-ec2

When you "sudo -s", you apparently get the .bash_history of the source account, because $HOME is unchanged.

Try setting $HOME to ~root before you sudo -s.

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