Through the fathomless deeps of space swims the star turtle Great A’Tuin, bearing on its back the four giant elephants who carry on their shoulders the mass of the Discworld.
A'tuin manages and synchronizes your shell history! Instead of storing everything in a text file (such as ~/.history), A'tuin uses a sqlite database. While being a little more complex, this allows for more functionality.
As well as the expected command, A'tuin stores
- duration
- exit code
- working directory
- hostname
- time
- a unique session ID
atuin needs a recent version of Rust + Cargo! It's best to use
rustup for getting set up there.
cargo install atuin
Once the binary is installed, the shell plugin requires installing:
zplug:
zplug "ellie/atuin", at:main
otherwise, clone the repo and source /path/to/repo/atuin.plugin.zsh in your .zshrc
By default A'tuin will rebind ctrl-r to use fzf to fuzzy search your history. You
can specify a different fuzzy tool by changing the value of ATUIN_FUZZY:
export ATUIN_FUZZY=fzy
atuin import auto # detect shell, then import
or
atuin import zsh # specify shell
atuin history list
A'tuin is named after "The Great A'tuin", a giant turtle from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books.