quick and dirty and certainly a better way but, 

use cut

history |cut -f4,5,6,7,8,9 -d" " >/tmp/outfile

--- Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:

> I would love to list the steps that I took from
> history without the line
> numbers...
> 
> i.e. 
> history > /root/install.log
> 
> puts line numbers in the file. How to simply get the
> commands?
> 
> Craig
> 
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