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Atuin – Magical shell history

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Re: Atuin – Magical shell history

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Post by mwpmaybe »

eigenvalue wrote: post #43

I've been using this for a couple months after using McFly in zsh for over a year. I think I can say that I like it better, but the only thing I sometimes don't like is how it completely takes over your screen when you press the up arrow. I usually just want to get the previous command I entered instead of the whole searchable history (which I use Control-R to bring up), and it's really jarring to have the entire scr…

You can adjust the size of the "window". I have my inline_height set to 20 and it's a bit less jarring when it pops up.

Re: Atuin – Magical shell history

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Post by Ringz »

eviks wrote: post #60

Can it do the magic of deduplication, cleaning failed commands with typos so your history isn't cluttered, and use frecency for autocompletions?

Deduplication as an option or shortcut would be nice. But I think Atuin should and maybe must save all commands in the database.

Re: Atuin – Magical shell history

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Post by deng »

The page claims this is "trusted by engineers" at Google, MS, Apple, Amazon, you name it. Could maybe some engineer at these companies enlighten me how you could convince your security team that it is fine that all your shell commands are streamed to an outside server? Yes, I know it's E2E, but still, without a proper audit, my security department here would laugh me out of the room if I'd ask for this. Do you all self-host the server in-house? If so, did you do a code review of the server code?

Re: Atuin – Magical shell history

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Post by sjagoe »

tupolef wrote: post #58
berkes wrote: post #13

I love how it looks and I love some of the fancy features. But above all, it's a solution to two real problems I had. I work in several terminals. Sometimes tabs or Windows in my emulator, sometimes screen or tmux. And all those sessions would overwrite eachothers history. I lost many actual important history entries that way. And I (almost) ran many wrong commands, expecting another one to be my last entry. Arrow-up…

- For your 1st issue, you can setup bash to append commands rather than overwrite them. Here the part of my .bashrc about history: # append rather than overwrite shopt -s histappend # attempts to save all lines of a multiple-line command in the same history entry shopt -s cmdhist # with cmdhist, saved with embedded newlines rather than semicolon separators shopt -s lithist HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth HISTSIZE=10000 HISTFI…

I had been using the history append for years before finding atuin a couple years ago. I still occassionally lost history through some combination of events I was never able to understand.

I've been using atuin happily for a few years now and it blows bash history out of the water.

Re: Atuin – Magical shell history

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Post by cschmatzler »

deng wrote: post #67

The page claims this is "trusted by engineers" at Google, MS, Apple, Amazon, you name it. Could maybe some engineer at these companies enlighten me how you could convince your security team that it is fine that all your shell commands are streamed to an outside server? Yes, I know it's E2E, but still, without a proper audit, my security department here would laugh me out of the room if I'd ask for this. Do you all se…

The server is optional and opt-in, stuff is saved to a local SQLite database by default.

Re: Atuin – Magical shell history

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Post by deng »

cschmatzler wrote: post #69
deng wrote: post #67

The page claims this is "trusted by engineers" at Google, MS, Apple, Amazon, you name it. Could maybe some engineer at these companies enlighten me how you could convince your security team that it is fine that all your shell commands are streamed to an outside server? Yes, I know it's E2E, but still, without a proper audit, my security department here would laugh me out of the room if I'd ask for this. Do you all se…

The server is optional and opt-in, stuff is saved to a local SQLite database by default.

In "What you get with Atuin" the first(!) point is "Sync your shell history to all of your machines, wherever they are". That obviously cannot work with a local SQLite. Without syncing, this is a better ctrl+r, which I won't disagree is nice, but not the real point of this software. If the page says this is "trusted" by pretty much all major software companies, I would assume this includes syncing, which is the main feature.

Also, even the possibility that the software would send this to the outside would make this impossible to use at my company, and I don't think we are overly strict in that sense here.

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