I can't help looking at this and working out how to build a tool that can generate a Do Nothing script straight from your histfile, making the business of archiving the commands you just executed as easy as possible too...
If you're about to do a sequence of commands into a terminal, you can create a transcript with the 'script $filename' command ('script' command is in the util-linux package', according to the man page), and it will capture input/output into the transcript. This would probably make this task easier, since you could see the output data, and how the output data is transformed into arguments into the next command ...
Reminds me of the time I decided to try kanban to start moving forward on tasks I procrastinate on or have trouble starting.
Of course, to make sure it was efficient enough to be helpful it had to be a configurable terminal app I could quickly update and review via cli and abundant io flags/options.
It also made sense to write it in Scheme because I had been thinking I wanted to try Lisp earlier that day.
Fast-forward three weeks and I find myself hopelessly trying to refactor this strangely ugly-beautiful ascii-art themed effort tracker run by an abomination of labrynthine "functional" source and realize (maybe just finally admit to myself) it was all an excuse to avoid all that shit I'd convinced myself I was going to acheive by kanbanning in the first place.