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Your shell history: synced, queryable, and in context

14 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2022-09-24 · latest 2025-02-10

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  1. I actually made a CLI tool ( https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory ) that automatically binds to Control+R to support both history searching and AI queries (by prefixing queries with `?`). Here's the prompt engineering I did:…
    comment by ddworken · 2025-02-10 · in Some terminal frustrations
  2. …arbitrary metadata with each command, like the git remote) and an AI shell command generator. [0]: https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory
    comment by ddworken · 2024-01-12 · in Fly through your shell history
  3. If you're more used to ctrl+r, you could try hiSHtory ( https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory )
    comment by fostware · 2023-11-06 · in Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete
  4. …in something more actively maintained, and with cross-machine syncing, two recent alternatives are: * github.com/ddworken/hishtory * github.com/ellie/atuin Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of the first one.
    comment by ddworken · 2022-12-02 · in Hstr: Bash and zsh shell history suggest box
  5. …of a missing comment in the bash script (that I didn't notice because I generally use zsh). See https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/commit/72ff95ab8b23c3be... and if you run `hishtory update` it should be all fixed.
    comment by ddworken · 2022-11-03 · in Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
  6. See https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/blob/master/backend/web... Also, Github pro tip: Press `t` when on any github repo to bring up fuzzy matching that can be used to easily find any specific file.
    comment by ddworken · 2022-11-03 · in Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
  7. Actually the install script is in the repo! See https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/tree/master/backend/web...
    comment by ddworken · 2022-11-03 · in Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
  8. I also did not like that it's hidden away in the code. It is easy to self-host it though. https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/issues/7 I also did not enjoy that the install script is not in the repo.
    comment by Jnr · 2022-11-02 · in Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
  9. …interesting to me is how this tool hooks into the shell to record commands. This can be found here: https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/tree/master/client/lib/...
    comment by mdmglr · 2022-11-02 · in Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
  10. See https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/issues/6 for info on how to disable control-R and how to uninstall. And sorry about this, I agree that a cleaner way to uninstall is needed and will get this implemented soon!
    comment by ddworken · 2022-11-02 · in Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
  11. See https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/issues/4 This isn't supported quite yet, but is the next item on the road map.
    comment by ddworken · 2022-11-02 · in Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable