hist - Improved shell history

⚠️ WORK IN PROGRESS

hist aims to be an improvement to the standard history command on Linux and Mac based systems (currently only zsh is supported).

Command history is stored in an sqlite3 database (located in the user's XDG DataDir).

Certain commands can be ignored by defining exclude patterns in the config file (located in the user's XDG ConfigDir).

An interactive search mode is bound to the ctrl-c command. It used a fuzzy search mode to select a command from your command history.

Config

By default, config is stored in XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hist/config.yml.

Currently only specifying path's to be excluded is supported.

---
patterns:
  excludes:
    - ^ls .*
    - ^ll.*
    - ^cd .*
    - ^rm .*

This excluded all commands starting with ls, ll, cd and rm from being added to history. When adding new exclude rules, the current config can be tidied up by using hist tidy.

Usage

Usage: hist [--config CONFIG] <command> [<args>]

Options:
  --config CONFIG [default: ~/.config/hist/config.yml]
  --help, -h             display this help and exit

Commands:
  delete                 Delete commands from history
  get                    Get a command by it's index'
  import                 Import commands from a legacy history file
  list                   List commands
  record                 Record a new command
  search                 Start the interactive fuzzy selection mode
  stats                  Show some statistics
  tidy                   Apply exclude patterns to clean up the hist database

Delete

Delete one or more entries from the database.

Usage: hist delete [--id ID] [--updated-before UPDATED-BEFORE] [--pattern PATTERN]

Options:
  --id ID, -i ID
  --updated-before UPDATED-BEFORE, -u UPDATED-BEFORE
  --pattern PATTERN, -p PATTERN
                         Delete all records matching the pattern

Get

Get a command from the database by index. This is used when traversing through history using arrow up and arrow down keys.

Usage: hist get [--index INDEX]

Options:
  --index INDEX

Import

Import your current ZSH history into hist's database

Usage: hist import [PATH]

Positional arguments:
  PATH

List

Usage: hist list [--by-count] [--reverse] [--no-count] [--no-last-update] [--with-id] [--limit LIMIT]

Options:
  --by-count
  --reverse
  --no-count
  --no-last-update
  --with-id
  --limit LIMIT, -l LIMIT [default: -1]

Record

Usage: hist record [COMMAND]

Positional arguments:
  COMMAND

Search

Start the interactive fuzzy selection mode

Usage: hist search

Stats

Show some statistics

Usage: hist stats

Tidy

Apply exclude patterns to clean up the hist database

Usage: hist tidy

Building and installing

Currently only building the binary yourself is supported.

git clone https://github.com/herzrasen/hist.git
cd hist
make && sudo make install

Also make sure that you source the shell script in your .zshrc

Creating a new release

git checkout main
git pull
git tag <version-tag>
git push --tags