I legitimately back up my history file. Mostly because it likes to truncate itself randomly (though this may have been fixed in zsh, or my config, because it's been a while). Just a systemd timer that triggers a shell script to copy it by date and rotate anything older than 100 copies.
Edit: WHY DID I SAY ANYTHING? After like 3 months of no problems, my history truncated itself to 3 entries a few minutes ago. I've only ever seen a few days of loss before that lol.
That's one thing I like about zsh, or my config at least, because I use i3 and therefore tend to open lots of shells. History is mostly local until I hit return twice (two empty prompts) at which point I can get history from other sessions. It's stuck more global at that point though aside from future history.
Was working on a server where I did not want to put some dumb command into the history, so I add a space like you do. Press up. The command is there. The fucking insult I felt.
(I'm not too familiar, someone else can clarify: is this available outside bash?)
What's interesting to me is the -a option, which lets you "flush" the history for the current session without ending the session. I can see that being useful!
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andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun · 16 pts · 2y
I legitimately back up my history file. Mostly because it likes to truncate itself randomly (though this may have been fixed in zsh, or my config, because it's been a while). Just a systemd timer that triggers a shell script to copy it by date and rotate anything older than 100 copies.
Edit: WHY DID I SAY ANYTHING? After like 3 months of no problems, my history truncated itself to 3 entries a few minutes ago. I've only ever seen a few days of loss before that lol.
jelloeater85@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Have you tried Atuin? It's amazing.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun · 3 pts · 2y
I did try it for a bit. IIRC it slowed me down more than I cared for. Maybe worth trying again, though.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
I'm annoyed when my thirteen bash instances don't share history, but I'd probably be a lot more annoyed if they did.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun · 2 pts · 2y
That's one thing I like about zsh, or my config at least, because I use i3 and therefore tend to open lots of shells. History is mostly local until I hit return twice (two empty prompts) at which point I can get history from other sessions. It's stuck more global at that point though aside from future history.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Ooh. I like that. I'm gonna try that, thanks.
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf · 2 pts · 2y
Haha, my bad!
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun · 2 pts · 2y
Fortunately I have my hourly backups! 😅
allywilson@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 2y
I just start every command with a space, don't see the issue.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Was working on a server where I did not want to put some dumb command into the history, so I add a space like you do. Press up. The command is there. The fucking insult I felt.
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
It's disabled by default, but you can enable it in .bashrc and then delete that edit session using a spaced command.
Edit: brain fart
superbirra@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
it also depends on the shell, in zsh it persists on local history but does not get written to history file
zemja@programming.dev · 11 pts · 2y
Can somebody please tell me what
history -cis?akdas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
It lets you clear the bash command history, either completely or selectively. Here's the GNU docs for the history builtin: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-History-Builtins.html#index-history
(I'm not too familiar, someone else can clarify: is this available outside bash?)
What's interesting to me is the
-aoption, which lets you "flush" the history for the current session without ending the session. I can see that being useful!emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
ripcord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
If you clear your history, you feel like a SpongeBob popsicle for some reason? That's what I'm reading. Gotta be it.
emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Same, but I just assumed I was the weird one. Maybe we are mainstream!
emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf · 1 pts · 2y
Clean and shiny! Brand spanking new!
textik@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Don't fucking do this in zsh, it does NOT do the same thing that it does in bash.
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf · 2 pts · 2y
What does it do? 😳
superbirra@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
the same :)
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf · 1 pts · 2y
Hahahaha
aCodeCrafter@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Welp, just did this to see what -c does...
Excuse me whilst I cry myself to sleep
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf · 0 pts · 2y
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