Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

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Post by ddworken » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 10:43 PM UTC

hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context (what directory you ran the command it, whether it succeeded or failed, how long it took, etc). This is all stored locally and end-to-end encrypted for syncing to to all your other computers. All of this is easily queryable via Control-R and via the hishtory CLI. This means from your laptop, you can easily find that complex bash pipeline you wrote on your server, and see the context in which you ran it.

Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
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Re: Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

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Post by nikolay » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 11:35 PM UTC

How does this compare to Atuin [0]?

[0]: https://atuin.sh/

Re: Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

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Post by rem7 » Wed, Nov 02, 2022, 12:36 AM UTC

I wrote something similar that I use across 2 laptops, so it stores it in AWS. The gist of it is firehose to S3 then use Athena to query. My zsh shell sources a script that has functions that uses the AWS cli to post data or query.

Re: Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

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Post by LifeIsBio » Wed, Nov 02, 2022, 12:47 AM UTC

I've been using Resh[0] for the past 6 months or so. A rich and queryable shell history is a massive boost in day-to-day productivity. The syncing described here is a pretty cool feature.

[0]: https://github.com/curusarn/resh

Re: Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

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Post by flas9sd » Wed, Nov 02, 2022, 1:12 AM UTC

directory context is quite an argument, I assume I can jump back into the directory with the line both - not just get the cli+args?

(Btw I read the util name in Sean Connerys voice)

Re: Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

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Post by sooheon » Wed, Nov 02, 2022, 1:27 AM UTC

There's an app for Macs with iCloud sync as well: https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/

Re: Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

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Post by ddworken » Wed, Nov 02, 2022, 1:35 AM UTC

sooheon wrote: post #6

There's an app for Macs with iCloud sync as well: https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/

Ah very cool! One advantage of hiSHtory over this is that hiSHtory also supports Linux (since it isn't bound to iCloud sync).

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Post by ddworken » Wed, Nov 02, 2022, 1:37 AM UTC

nikolay wrote: post #2

How does this compare to Atuin [0]? [0]: https://atuin.sh/

Ah, I hadn't come across Atuin before! They're pretty similar, but I think one significant advantage of hiSHtory is the "Custom Columns" support where you can populate custom columns with the output of an arbitrary shell script. For example, you can use this to collect the current git branch as an additional column.

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Post by ddworken » Wed, Nov 02, 2022, 1:37 AM UTC

flas9sd wrote: post #5

directory context is quite an argument, I assume I can jump back into the directory with the line both - not just get the cli+args? (Btw I read the util name in Sean Connerys voice)

Yup exactly! And you can even collect other custom metadata to make it easier to jump write back to where you were.

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Post by encryptluks2 » Wed, Nov 02, 2022, 1:40 AM UTC

I'm confused why you need python 3 to install a Go app?

> curl https://hishtory.dev/install.py | python3 -