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I go the opposite direction. I delete browser history on close. My BASH history isn’t reliable. I am curious how having your history is your greatest force mul

I go the opposite direction. I delete browser history on close. My BASH history isn’t reliable. I am curious how having your history is your greatest force multiplier.

dewey 5y ago
> I am curious how having your history is your greatest force multiplier. Doing a ctrl + r to fuzzy search the history is very powerful. I could honestly not imagine working without that. Do you never have to type the same command twice, or re-use common commands?
- hwers 5y ago
  I tend to just make a habit of memorizing commands that I repeatedly use. That or I make a script to automate it if I find myself repeating the same action.
- shiomiru 5y ago
  I've seen somebody with a 1k+ lines long bashrc. They apparently put every useful command in there. Not sure how much better that approach is, I suppose it's similar to using bookmarks vs browsing history.
  - dmd 5y ago
    $ wc -l .zsh_history 71114 .zsh_history
    - dewey 5y ago
      history != config file ;) You'd have to compare your .zshrc to their .bashrc
- deleted 5y ago
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- Hnrobert42 5y ago
  If it is something I used recently, I use ctrl+R or up arrow, but if it’s not there anymore, I just retype. It’s not so bad for me.
danuker 5y ago
To set in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile: export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h %d %H:%M:%S " export HISTSIZE=100000 My ~/.bash_history averages 22 bytes per line.
dmos62 5y ago
Bash history does suck, at least out of the box. My history use has become consistent and frequent after I started using fish.