Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

Sending your command history automatically over the network is always an huge security risk. This tool atleast have a security section in the readme, but nothing about operational security and how to guard against hacks of one synced agent.<p>I will try it because the history tool looks like an interesting take, but the security model is not ok for multi computer use.

How does this compare to Atuin [0]?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atuin.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atuin.sh&#x2F;</a>

Just tried this, and it appears to cause a very significant lag (~2 sec) after each shell command. Removing the sourcing of the config from bashrc and opening a new shell immediately gets rid of the lag. Maybe it&#x27;s because I have HISTSIZE set to a large value...

So, this syncs through a hosted server somewhere? Can I host my own? That information should be front and center imo, I didn&#x27;t see in anywhere in the Readme.

How does this differ from fzf, peco or autin?<p>A table comparing these and existing tools would be ideal to show what&#x27;s unique about this one.

Is my new Mycroft AI device capturing my thoughts and sending them on to a Borg-like hivemind? I was just thinking of something like this the other day and here it is on HN!<p>All jokes aside, from reading the threads, I see there are other alternatives, most interestingly atuin and fzf. I used fzf for a while, but didn&#x27;t use the history features. Atuin looks amazing, and installs using nix-shell. My litmus test for whether something is safe to use is nix-shell these days; I&#x27;m not excited about running a curl script into python as my starting point!<p>Does anyone have references on whether atuin and fzf can be used together, or should you only use one or the other? I liked fzf but the encrypted remote sync feature of atuin looks really fascinating.

Looks cool. Is it possible to disable sync? For security reasons, I would rather keep everything local

I use syncthing instead. But if I switch computers quickly there are conflicts which I resolve like this:<p><pre><code> function sync_history cat ~&#x2F;.local&#x2F;share&#x2F;fish&#x2F;fish_history.sync-conflict-* &gt;&gt;~&#x2F;.local&#x2F;share&#x2F;fish&#x2F;fish_history rm ~&#x2F;.local&#x2F;share&#x2F;fish&#x2F;fish_history.sync-conflict-* end</code></pre>

I didn&#x27;t see the install.py script in the repo. Would be a good idea to include it.<p>What was much more interesting to me is how this tool hooks into the shell to record commands. This can be found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ddworken&#x2F;hishtory&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;client&#x2F;lib&#x2F;config.{fish,sh,zsh}" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ddworken&#x2F;hishtory&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;client&#x2F;lib&#x2F;...</a>

Does it handle multiple writers on the same machine? For example two people ssh-ing with the same user to a remote machine with hishtory

Looks nice! Do all of these shell history replacements completely override native history functionality or just add on to it? (and if I delete something using `hishtory redact` does it delete it from my native shell history too?)<p>Also just a heads up, I find the demo gif to be unintelligibly fast.

I wrote something similar that I use across 2 laptops, so it stores it in AWS. The gist of it is firehose to S3 then use Athena to query. My zsh shell sources a script that has functions that uses the AWS cli to post data or query.

I&#x27;m confused why you need python 3 to install a Go app?<p>&gt; curl <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hishtory.dev&#x2F;install.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hishtory.dev&#x2F;install.py</a> | python3 -

Anyone&#x2F;anything solving the issue of bash histories in multiple (intricated) tmux sessions is an INSTANT win !!!!<p>[Q: can this tool help? As far as in understand, it seems that YEEEES!!!]

directory context is quite an argument, I assume I can jump back into the directory with the line both - not just get the cli+args?<p>(Btw I read the util name in Sean Connerys voice)

An uninstall feature would be useful.

Is it doing anything clever for the search? Based on path context etc?

david is one of the smartest people I&#x27;ve ever worked with at Google. It&#x27;s good to see him here :)

I have been using Atuin for sometime, but I must say, though that looks cool, the fuzzy search results out-of-the-box are useless to me.<p>I used to use something before, probably McFly, that had way better search results.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cantino&#x2F;mcfly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cantino&#x2F;mcfly</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ellie&#x2F;atuin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ellie&#x2F;atuin</a>

I&#x27;ve been using Resh[0] for the past 6 months or so. A rich and queryable shell history is a massive boost in day-to-day productivity. The syncing described here is a pretty cool feature.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;curusarn&#x2F;resh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;curusarn&#x2F;resh</a>

There&#x27;s an app for Macs with iCloud sync as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loshadki.app&#x2F;shellhistory&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loshadki.app&#x2F;shellhistory&#x2F;</a>

I do something similar but much, much simpler with a 4-line `precmd` [1] in my .zshrc file. It just records timestamp, directory and command to a file per day. Then you can use standard grep &amp; standard tools to find things.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.marcuse.info&#x2F;bash&#x2F;bash-infinite-history.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.marcuse.info&#x2F;bash&#x2F;bash-infinite-history.html</a>

This is interesting but i&#x27;m not interested in the sharing of the history, and i&#x27;m not sure what this offers that using fzf with zsh doesn&#x27;t