Full command line as it was typed

Question

I want to get the full command line as it was typed.

This:

\" \".join(sys.argv[:])

doesn\'t work here (deletes double quotes). Also I pr

Answer 1

If you're on Linux, I'd suggest monkeying with the ~/.bash_history file or the shell history command, although I believe the command must finish executing before it's added to the shell history.

I started playing with:

import popen2
x,y = popen2.popen4("tail ~/.bash_history")
print x.readlines()

But I'm getting weird behavior where the shell doesn't seem to be completely flushing to the .bash_history file.