Saving current directory to bash history

Question

I\'d like to save the current directory where the each command was issued alongside the command in the history. In order not to mess things up, I was thinking about adding

Answer 1

Gentleman this works better.. The only thing I can not figure out is how to make the script NOT log to syslog on login and log the last command in history. But works like a charm so far.

#!/bin/bash

trackerbash() {
    # adds comments to bash history entries

    # by Dennis Williamson
    # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/945288/saving-current-directory-to-bash-history
    # (thanks to Lajos Nagy for the idea)

    #Supper Enhanced by QXT


    # INSTALLATION: source this file in your .bashrc

    export HISTTIMEFORMAT=
#    export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F   %T    '

    local hcmnt
    local cwd
    local extra
    local thistty
    local whoiam
    local sudouser
    local shelldate
    local TRACKIP
    local TRACKHOST


            thistty=`/usr/bin/tty|/bin/cut -f3-4 -d/`
            whoiam=`/usr/bin/whoami`
            sudouser=`last |grep $thistty |head -1 | awk '{ print $1 }' |cut -c 1-10`
            hcmnt=$(history 1)
            hcmnt="${hcmnt# *[0-9]*  }"
            cwd=`pwd`



            hcmnt="${hcmnt% ### *}"
            hcmnt=" $hcmnt ${extra:+$extra }"

            shelldate=`date +"%Y %b %d %R:%S"`
            TRACKHOST=`whoami | sed -r "s/.*\((.*)\).*/\\1/"`
            TRACKIP=`last |grep $thistty |head -1 | awk '{ print $3 }'`


            logger -p local1.notice -t bashtracker -i -- "$sudouser ${USER}: $thistty: $TRACKIP: $shelldate: $cwd : $hcmnt"
            history -w 

}
export PROMPT_COMMAND='trackerbash'