WDYM your terminal isn't a test suite?

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• andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you tried Atuin? It’s amazing.

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    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did try it for a bit. IIRC it slowed me down more than I cared for. Maybe worth trying again, though.

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  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m annoyed when my thirteen bash instances don’t share history, but I’d probably be a lot more annoyed if they did.

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    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haha, my bad!

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    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fortunately I have my hourly backups! 😅

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• allywilson@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just start every command with a space, don’t see the issue.

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  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 . The command is there. The fucking insult I felt.

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    • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not disabled by default, but you can enable it in .bashrc and then delete that edit session using a spaced command.

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    • superbirra@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it also depends on the shell, in zsh it persists on local history but does not get written to history file

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• zemja@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can somebody please tell me what history -c is?

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  • survivalmachine@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    history displays a list of all commands you have run on the terminal since the history list was last cleared. It is invaluable for referring back to a big complex command or set of commands you ran at some point in the past. The -c flag clears that history.

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    • zemja@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fuck, I just cleared my history.

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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What does it do again?

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      dont you also need history -w to save it?

      on ubuntu -c doesnt actually clear it unless you also use -w

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  • akdas@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It let’s you clear the bash command history, either completely or selectively. Here’s the GNU docs for the history builtin: www.gnu.org/…/Bash-History-Builtins.html#index-hi…

    (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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• textik@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t fucking do this in zsh, it does NOT do the same thing that it does in bash.

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  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What does it do? 😳

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    • superbirra@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the same :)

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• aCodeCrafter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Welp, just did this to see what -c does…

  Excuse me whilst I cry myself to sleep

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  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🥺

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• emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can someone explain, I don’t get it.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you clear your history, you feel like a SpongeBob popsicle for some reason? That’s what I’m reading. Gotta be it.

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    • emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Weird, I clear my history very frequently and never once felt like a SpongeBob popsicle.

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