bash-history-done-right 1.0.0

Fix bash history to share between terminals, search by prefix, and keep history forever

bash-history-done-right

Python package to implement https://abarry.org/bash-history-finally-done-right/

Fixes bash history to:

• Share history across terminals (union of all terminals' history in a new terminal)
• Keep each terminal's own history while it is open
• Search history by prefix with up/down arrow keys
• Keep all history forever in ~/.bash_eternal_history

Install

pip install bash-history-done-right

That's it. Your ~/.bashrc is patched automatically (a backup is saved to ~/.bashrc.bak). Open a new terminal to use it.

Uninstall

bash-history-done-right uninstall
pip uninstall bash-history-done-right

Re-install / customize

# Re-install (e.g. after editing .bashrc)
bash-history-done-right install

# Install without arrow-key prefix search
bash-history-done-right install --no-arrow-search

# Install without eternal history file
bash-history-done-right install --no-eternal-history

Publishing to PyPI

Only upload the sdist (no wheel) so that setup.py runs on the user's machine:

python -m build --sdist
twine upload dist/*