Location Of Command

[ButchCavendish]

Hi There..
I want to execute history command in linux terminal by using execl() function.. but this function requires the complete path of command to be execute, so the problem is that I don't know the location of history command .. Any idea where is it ??
P.S : Even after google I'm unable to found the location
Thanks in advance

[cire]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24286661/can-i-get-executed-commands-not-using-history-or-bash-history

[ButchCavendish]

Hi Cire, Thanks for answering me ..
But this is not the answer to my question. I've to execute history command like the following.
execl("/bin/history","history", buf, (char*)0);
But unfortunately this line of code doesn't work.. it says command not found. But If I directly write history command in terminal it lists all the recent commands
I want the command to work like above..

[koothkeeper]

Try this if bash is your shell:

execl( "/bin/bash", "history", buf, ( char * )0 );

[kbw]

Why not just read the .bash_history file?

[ButchCavendish]

Why not just read the .bash_history file?

I''ll be very thankfull to you If you tell me how to do that :)

[Zhuge]

Try the following:
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/