[jakozaur]

Well given that we copy and paste a lot, by mistake there can be credentials and sensitive data in the bash history...

Moreover, bash history doesn't work nicely across different terminal tabs or computers.

Does anybody know a tool providing better command line history?

[sophacles]

How about just using bash?: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/48116

There's several controls to make the bash history do what you want. The defaults are just a bit odd.

[developer2]

1. Regarding commands with credentials or sensitive info, bash allows you to prefix the command with a space character to omit saving the command to the history. This requires remembering this fact, and of course you get nothing in your history to refer to later.

2. I remember a HN submission for a piece of software (or collection of softwares?) that provided a centralized log of your command history across multiple machines. In this way, if you are working on multiple machines in a cluster, you can later search back through your histories from those machines in a single location. My Google Fu is failing me now though.

[pbhjpbhj]

I have a little bit of bash to save my history files and a custom search, hss, to search across them. This makes the exposure an order of degrees, if it's in bash history already then it's going to hang around longer. If I weren't doing this if still have the same problem with bash's built-in/default history.

I started this in response to a HN post some years ago.

[efyx]

For better history across different terminal (on the same computer) you may want to try zsh

[zeveb]

For better pretty much everything, one may wish to try zsh. It's pretty much a strict superset of bash, but better.

There is one aspect in which it's significantly worse, though: it's fiendishly difficult to configure and understand. I just use configs provided by others, which is not ideal but works.

[stormbrew]

bash (with all features) is also a strict superset of bash (with default configuration that people think is all there is to it, especially if they use macs [1]), but better.

[1] If you are using a mac and haven't installed a newer copy of bash you're using a version that's nearing on 10 years old and does indeed mostly suck.

[azinman2]

Or fish shell! It's autocomplete is the bomb.