Problem with using sed command

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
1

I have tried to print the commands which are executed today from history file using sed command by putting the range but i am unable to get it.can anyone help with this is script.I am pasting the script below that i have tried .

today=$(date "+%F")
echo $today
yest=$(date --date="yesterday"  +"%F")
echo $yest
history | sed -n "/ $yest/,/$today/p" > /home/pest.txt
2

What be the output of your history command? Does it have any entries matching $yest and / or $today ? Does any account for the space in front of $yest ?

3

Try:

history | sed -n '/ '"$yest"'/,/ '"$today"'/p'