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Ah, a fellow packrat! I have every command I ever typed into a shell since around 2005, and my history weighs in at 1 CD or 650MB (as of a couple of years ago)
by akkartik 3y ago
Ah, a fellow packrat! I have every command I ever typed into a shell since around 2005, and my history weighs in at 1 CD or 650MB (as of a couple of years ago)
I'm probably being wasteful of space because I store each session in a separate file. I used to do a lot of data analysis at the shell back in the day, and found it useful to audit sequences of commands afterwards for mistakes, or to turn them into scripts.
- TedDoesntTalk 3y agoThis is so insane that I love it. Do you also save your belly button lint since 2005? Or nail clippings? :)
- akkartik 3y agoI'm only a digital packrat. Bits are so much cheaper to hoard, even deciding to throw something away is often more work.
- enriquto 3y agoThis is more like saving your old notebooks and drafts, only that they don't take any meaningful space. Or like having a revision control system. Do you rebase your git repos regularly to delete commits older than 6 months?
- trallnag 3y agoDo you regularly back up your history?
- akkartik 3y agoOh yes. It gets backed up along with everything else.