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Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

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Re: Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

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Post by Black616Angel »

I've been using atuin in my private PC for like half a year now.

It is kinda nice, to quickly search your history and that part works really well, but what I don't like (maybe there are configs for it) is that you:

1. have an additional button press for the usual "get me that last operation" and

2. it searches all sessions (which is mostly nice, but sometimes annoying, I guess)

Re: Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

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Post by freedomben »

Black616Angel wrote: post #4

I've been using atuin in my private PC for like half a year now. It is kinda nice, to quickly search your history and that part works really well, but what I don't like (maybe there are configs for it) is that you: 1. have an additional button press for the usual "get me that last operation" and 2. it searches all sessions (which is mostly nice, but sometimes annoying, I guess)

I changed the configuration so that my up arrow isn't hijacked. That fixed most of my annoyances. For a quick recall from history that I know is one to four back, I can use the up and down arrows. When wanting to actually search, I will use ctrl + r.

You can toggle back and forth between what is being searched. For example, you can search globally, or one session.

Re: Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

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Post by glodalitazic »

Black616Angel wrote: post #4

I've been using atuin in my private PC for like half a year now. It is kinda nice, to quickly search your history and that part works really well, but what I don't like (maybe there are configs for it) is that you: 1. have an additional button press for the usual "get me that last operation" and 2. it searches all sessions (which is mostly nice, but sometimes annoying, I guess)

you can change the default scope to session or directory. And then cycle through the scopes

Re: Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

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Post by buserror »

I've been using '.bash_history per directory' method for quite a while. Mostly changed 'cd' to see if I'm in /home or /opt and switch the HISTORY_PATH.. then tail -5 the bash_history that is (likely) there.

This allows me to switch context/projects etc and have a valuable history, instead of a whole mashup of all kind of other activities crammed into a single file in $HOME...

Perhaps I could use a single SQLITE database with a fancy invocation to do the same? Ie limit the history to the current subtree commands have been invoked in?

Re: Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

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Post by gnyman »

I'll pop in with a related question. (Maybe something to add to atuin?). Is anyone doing this for the output?

I've had iTerm session logging enabled on my personal machine for a while and have found it very useful every now and then when I need to remember what or how I did something a long time ago?

But there is a decently large risk that the output will contain something sensitive I don't want stored, so I'm wondering if there is some project which does this but would allow me to write some rules on what to react, which servers I don't want the output stored from etc.

For now I just manually disable logging when I know I will do something sensitive or when I know it's going to generate a lot of noise I don't want to waste space on. I have a shortcut created so I can select "Toggle logging" with shift+cmd+o.

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