Setting up Atuin §

Atuin is a really nice tool to improve your terminal history. It uses an sqlite db to store you history, and allows you to nicely query against it.

Also it has a nice look and feel :)

It rebinds ctrl + r, and shows an interface like this:

Lets go over how to install:

Run this:

bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ellie/atuin/main/install.sh)

installation for bash §

We need to setup some hooks, so first install bash-preexec:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec/master/bash-preexec.sh -o ~/.bash-preexec.sh
echo '[[ -f ~/.bash-preexec.sh ]] && source ~/.bash-preexec.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

Then setup Atuin

echo 'eval "$(atuin init bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

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To not lose all your other history, Atuin has a nice functionality to import you old history, simply use:

atuin import auto

And Atuin will automatically detect the shell you’re using and import your history.