TomSchammo / clean-history

Learning rust by creating a program that cleans my shell history for me.

Clean History

A daemon to automatically clean shell histories.

Having my shell history polluted by duplicate commands or commands that are specific to a certain folder or file that no longer exists is annoying.

So I decided to do something about it.

Features

Z-Shell

The program can automatically find the history file of the Z-Shell (generally).

Removal of duplicates

The program filters out duplicates from your history.

Command line options

• --daemonize or -d runs the program as a background process in a loop.
• --timeout <TIMEOUT> or -t <TIMEOUT> overwrites the default timeout of 1s between iterations when running as a daemon.
• --history <HISTFILE_PATH> or -h <HISTFILE_PATH> allows the user to provide a path to their history file. This is generally more robust and therefore recommended.

Roadmap

• Intelligent file tracking to remove any commands that access/ interact with files that no longer exist
• Configuration
• Command Blacklist
• Character Limit
• Support for automatically finding bash_history (maybe)