How to display bash history without line numbers

A standard use of the history command will output line numbers as well as the commands in your history:

> history
  1  ls
  2  du -ks my_file.txt
  3  rm my_file.txt

The line numbers are useful for when you want to repeat a command – you can refer to it by the line number as follows:

> !1
my_file.txt

But if you want to save a lot of commands from your history and not have to edit out the line numbers, you can simply use:

> history -w /dev/stdout
ls
du -ks my_file.txt
rm my_file.txt
history
ls

The -w option tells history to write the current history to a file. In the above version we redirect to the standard output instead of a file.

Via commandlinefu.com.