[howeyc]

I do something very similar, but without the prompt settings. I have settings in .bashrc[0] to have the history file based on date. I then use fzf[1] (fzf-tmux is great) and a grep-like tool(sift[2]) to use for ctrl-r that fuzzy-searches history and orders by usage frequency[3]. This way I can easily search for the command I'm thinking of fairly quickly. Particularly useful for those times I want to run a command again that was quite long or had more than a couple options/flags.

---

[0] HISTFILE="${HOME}/Sync/Dotfiles/history/$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d.%H.%M.%S)_${HOSTNAME_SHORT}_$$"; export HISTFILE

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

[2] https://sift-tool.org/

[3] __fzf_history__() {

sift --no-color -e "^[^#]" --files "_${HOSTNAME_SHORT}_" -N --no-filename $HOME/Sync/Dotfiles/history | sort | uniq -c | sort | $(__fzfcmd) +s --tac +m -n1..,.. --tiebreak=index --toggle-sort=ctrl-r | sed "s/ [0-9] *//"

}

[biomcgary]

For those who want a well thought out solution, I have a co-worker that created a very useful history shell script with lots of integrated tools for search. Just source in your bash profile.

https://github.com/autochthe/history

[gingerlime]

Thanks for the awesome tips and simple recipe to tie things together.

Had to tweak mine slightly though:

  ${HOSTNAME_SHORT} -> ${HOSTNAME}

  $HOME/Sync/Dotfiles/history -> $HOME/Sync/Dotfiles/history/*

(maybe the missing star was due to HN formatting?)

[howeyc]

Yes, the stars are missing, but not where you think. The --files option has a star on the inside of each quote. This makes the search only show history for the host you are on (I sync my Dotfiles between machines).

sift searches a path/folder so the star you have is not needed.

But yeah, HOSTNAME_SHORT is something I derive from HOSTNAME.

[gingerlime]

Thanks for clarifying! Now I'm curious to hear more about how you sync your dotfiles ;-)

[howeyc]

I sync my "$HOME/Sync" folder to pretty much every device I have. Android phone/tablet, Windows Laptop, FreeBSD Desktop, Linux VPS....

syncthing[0]/SyncTrazor[1]

[0] https://syncthing.net/

[1] https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor#installation

[rawnlq]

Dropbox with a symlink also works fine though I have had it generate conflicts within .ssh folder which I also sync.

[nzjrs]

I having trouble seeing what's going on here. Is the formatting ok? Maybe throw it in a gist?