# How can I view the whole command history?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987
**Category:** VS Code
**Created:** [November 25, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987 "2018-11-25T18:16:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/1 "2018-11-25T18:16:23Z")
Hello.
How can I view the whole list of commands used on Visual Studio Code + Julia?
I’m not able to find that option.
I can just use the arrows to slowly navigate through than commands on the REPL.
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### Author:  [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/2 "2018-11-25T19:26:23Z")
CRTL+R should let you search through the history. Type something and up-arrow should only show stuff which started with those letters. The full history is in the `~/.julia_history` file, at least for Julia 0.6.
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### Author:  [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/3 "2018-11-26T01:01:09Z")
It moved to `~/.julia/logs/repl_history.jl` in 1.0.
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/4 "2018-11-26T01:20:15Z")
on my Spanish keyboard Ctrl+R doesn’t show the history.
It shows this box
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/5 "2018-11-26T01:21:13Z")
> [@StefanKarpinski](#):
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> repl\_history.jl
And how can you view its content from VS Code?
After you mentioned repl\_history I’ve found this question on stackoverflow
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It seems we don’t have a dedicated window on VS Code to view the history as we do on RStudio or other applications.
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### Author:  [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/6 "2018-11-26T02:34:56Z")
You can just open the file. It’s a plain text file.
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/7 "2018-11-26T02:43:21Z")
You know I don’t mean that.
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### Author:  [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/8 "2018-11-26T02:49:49Z")
I don’t—that’s how I view it. I also don’t use an IDE.
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### Author:  [@Gus\_Hart](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gus_Hart)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/9 "2019-01-30T03:06:39Z")
Thanks, this was helpful. It’s nice to be able to open the file directly. Still, sometimes I wish there was something equivalent to bash shell’s `history` command to just list the history in the REPL.
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### Author:  [@tkoolen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tkoolen)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/10 "2019-01-30T05:56:06Z")
You might like `@searchhistory` from [https://github.com/tkf/InteractiveCodeSearch.jl](https://github.com/tkf/InteractiveCodeSearch.jl).
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### Author:  [@Wikunia](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Wikunia)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/11 "2019-12-03T19:35:59Z")
would be nice to just have a `history` command in `Base` or not?
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-view-the-whole-command-history/17987/12 "2019-12-04T15:36:16Z")
> [@Is there an easy way to get at the history of REPL input?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-get-at-the-history-of-repl-input/18025/6):
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> I think this will serve nicely: REPL.find\_hist\_file(). Then all that is required is a little macro (or function) to spit out the contents of the history file… Perhaps like this, except a lot more succinct: InteractiveUtils.less(REPL.find\_hist\_file()) Maybe this? macro history() InteractiveUtils.less(REPL.find\_hist\_file()); end