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# Rich Enhanced Shell History
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## What
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This project is the first phase of my Master project.
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It records shell history with rich set of metadata and saves it locally. (device, directory, git, time, terminal session pid, ... see example below)
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It doesn't change the way your shell and your shell history behaves.
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You won't notice any delay in your shell (~40ms).
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If you are not happy with it you can uninstall it with a single command (`rm -rf ~/.resh`).
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## Why
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The ultimate point of my thesis is to provide a context-based replacement/enhancement for bash and zsh shell history.
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The idea is to:
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- Save each command with metadata (device, directory, git, time, terminal session pid, ... see example below)
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- Recommend history based on saved metadata
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- e.g. it will be easier to get to commands specific to the project you are currently working on (based on directory, git repository url, ...)
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- Provide a simple way to search whole history by command itself and/or metadata (e.g. imagine searching by project, directory, device, ...)
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- Synchronize history across devices
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- Provide an API (to make the project easily extensible)
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- And more ...
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In order to be able to develop a good history tool I will need to get some insight into real life shell usage patterns.
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That's why I ask YOU to install this tool to locally record your shell history.
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After some time (probably a few months) I will create a script to replace anything too personal in the recorded data by placeholders.
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Then I will ask you to run the script against the recorded data and tell me if you are willing to share the resluts with me.
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I'm very thankful for anyone who is willing to support my thesis by providing their usage data!
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If you install RESH, please give me some contact info using this form: https://forms.gle/227SoyJ5c2iteKt98
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## Prereqisities
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- `git`
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- `golang` >1.6 (preferably >1.11)
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## Installation
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### Simplest
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Run this command.
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```
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bash -c "$(wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/curusarn/resh/master/scripts/rawinstall.sh)"
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```
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### Simple
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1. Run `git clone https://github.com/curusarn/resh.git && cd resh`
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2. Run `make autoinstall` for assisted build & instalation.
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- OR Run `make install` if you know how to build Golang projects.
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If you install RESH, please give me some contact info using this form: https://forms.gle/227SoyJ5c2iteKt98
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## Compatibility
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Works in `bash` and `zsh`.
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Tested on:
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- Arch
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- Manjaro
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- MacOS
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- Ubuntu (18.04)
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- really old Ubuntu (16.04)
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## Examples
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Resh history is saved to `~/.resh_history.json`
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Each line is a JSON that represents one executed command line.
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This is how I view it `tail -f ~/.resh_history.json | jq` or `jq < ~/.resh_history.json`.
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You can install `jq` using your favourite package manager or you can use other JSON parser to view the history.
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## Known issues
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### Q: I use bash on macOS and resh doesn't work
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**A:** You have to add `[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc` to your `~/.bash_profile`.
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**Long Answer:** Under macOS bash shell only loads `~/.bash_profile` because every shell runs as login shell. I will definitely work around this in the future but since this doesn't affect many people I decided to not solve this issue at the moment.
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## Issues
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You are welcome to create issues: https://github.com/curusarn/resh/issues
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## Uninstallation
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You can uninstall this project at any time by running `rm -rf ~/.resh/`
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You won't lose any recorded history by removing `~/.resh` directory because history is saved in `~/.resh_history.json`.
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