Since configuration management isn't a typical part of my day job, this is appealing - I have used Chef and Ansible a little, but haven't needed them badly enou

Since configuration management isn't a typical part of my day job, this is appealing - I have used Chef and Ansible a little, but haven't needed them badly enough to really choose one, which makes ShutIt attractive to me, especially recording sessions. This may be a 'careful what you wish for' but I am curious if you think it would be possible to parse the shell history file on a box to produce a recording retroactively? It would probably have to be interactive, press return to add this command or space to ignore it etc., but it would provide for backing up everything you'd done to a server, which I have certainly wished I had an easy way to do (short of manually poring over my history and cherry-picking the things that mattered).