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Am I the only one who doesn't like their command history to be saved? I don't like the idea of that being recorded, even if it would save me time in some occasi

• jquast 8y ago
  in early internet days, I would either chmod 000 the .bash_history file, or symlink it to /dev/null, to signal to the sysadmin that i don't like being watched... 20 years later and I meticulously save all of my own history, even command output/terminal transcripts. It has become too rich of information and important for me to callback to, it makes me a more effective worker
  • Crontab 8y ago
    Interesting. Out of curiosity, how much history do you save? And do you sync it between machines (assuming you have more than one)?
    • jquast 8y ago
      I save millions of commands or megabytes of bash history, its customized for maximum values, and to persist often on both of my primary computers (workstation, laptop). for the rest of the ~hundreds of computers I login to in a year I mostly just use default 1,000 maximum lines history of bash. I make no effort to synchronize across machines, it is helpful for me to keep them separate -- which computer it was executed on is also the computer to recall it from. I have also considered full-time full-screen recording! I just wanted to express that using Linux professionally for 20 some years has turned me around to the opposite of extreme I began with, maybe you do not know that you are missing out on a fantastic "recall" skill :)