displaying history in a script

[musya]

So when you type history in bash you get a list of your history...however I'm trying to get the same output into my bash script but its not working. I do

#!/bin/bash

history

and nothing outputs, I've tried a few things such as

echo history, or echo $history

but still no luck, any ideas?
Thank you,

[jayd512]

Try this:

#!/bin/bash

cat .bash_history

[musya]

Sorry I made a mistake, I need to find the current history number. I tried

history ! 0

but it still says that I need to specify a numeric number. Any ideas?

Thank you

[jayd512]

What exactly do you mean by 'current history number'?