I do a lot of analyses as a series of shell commands. Sometimes the command is complex, other times it isn't but the specific arguments I'm using matter a lot.

I do a lot of analyses as a series of shell commands. Sometimes the command is complex, other times it isn't but the specific arguments I'm using matter a lot. When I need to revisit an old analysis being able to see the commands I was running is incredibly useful for picking up where I left off or answering people's questions about exactly what I did. These are rarely commands so complex that they represent serious programming effort, but that's not why I want to save them. (My approach: https://www.jefftk.com/p/you-should-be-logging-shell-history https://www.jefftk.com/p/you-should-be-logging-shell-history)