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I just write all my commands to a log. It's saved me a number of times. https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/ https://spin.atomicobject.co

I just write all my commands to a log. It's saved me a number of times. https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/ https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/

varenc 6y ago
You can do this easily with zsh’s standard features. I love having years of my command history! It's all combined across sessions and instantly searchable with the standard ^R. These are most of the settings in ZSH I use to enable all that. HISTSIZE=10000000 SAVEHIST=10000000 setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY # logs the start and elapsed time setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY setopt SHARE_HISTORY setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS setopt HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS Apple now even recommends zsh shell over bash! =) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 (it's the 10.15 default)
- MachineGunPablo 6y ago
  yes, `EXTENDED_HISTORY` is all you need... And BTW I think HIST_IGNORE_DUPS` is not needed if you set `HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS`
- kinleyd 6y ago
  Thank you, this was so timely. My zsh terminals have been saving my command history but, for reasons I didn't know, were not displaying them. I'm much pleased to have that sorted out.
- TwoNineFive 6y ago
  > Apple now even recommends zsh shell over bash! Worth reading why they did that: https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina-use-zsh-instead-of-bash-licensing/ https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina...
dmortin 6y ago
Yes, it's useful. It's even better if you can search your commands with out of order matching (multiple words in any order). I do this from Emacs (you can use Helm or Ivy, for example) and it's extremely convenient and effective to quickly get old commands back.
pletnes 6y ago
Xonsh lets you log history to a sqlite database. It’s a nifty feature for analysing what you’re doing in your shell and AFAIK it keeps the start/stop/elapsed time too.

I just write all my commands to a log. It's saved me a number of times. https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/ https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/

varenc 6y ago

You can do this easily with zsh’s standard features. I love having years of my command history! It's all combined across sessions and instantly searchable with the standard ^R. These are most of the settings in ZSH I use to enable all that. HISTSIZE=10000000 SAVEHIST=10000000 setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY # logs the start and elapsed time setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY setopt SHARE_HISTORY setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS setopt HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS Apple now even recommends zsh shell over bash! =) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 (it's the 10.15 default)

MachineGunPablo 6y ago
yes, `EXTENDED_HISTORY` is all you need... And BTW I think HIST_IGNORE_DUPS` is not needed if you set `HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS`
kinleyd 6y ago
Thank you, this was so timely. My zsh terminals have been saving my command history but, for reasons I didn't know, were not displaying them. I'm much pleased to have that sorted out.
TwoNineFive 6y ago
> Apple now even recommends zsh shell over bash! Worth reading why they did that: https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina-use-zsh-instead-of-bash-licensing/ https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina...

dmortin 6y ago

Yes, it's useful. It's even better if you can search your commands with out of order matching (multiple words in any order). I do this from Emacs (you can use Helm or Ivy, for example) and it's extremely convenient and effective to quickly get old commands back.

pletnes 6y ago

Xonsh lets you log history to a sqlite database. It’s a nifty feature for analysing what you’re doing in your shell and AFAIK it keeps the start/stop/elapsed time too.