fimbaz / bashit

The idea here is to get all your terminal history in one place

Bring home remote bash commands.

Instructions:

1. install rust
2. run make
3. source ~/.bashrc
4. ssh to anywhere
5. observe your history back at home in ~/.bash_universal_history.

What? - a tool to locally save commands typed in remote terminal sessions.

Constraints:

• Can't require special permissions or configuration on the host
• Can't open any new sockets
• Can't modify the remote at all

Approach:

• Using bashit, when you ssh to a server the output of your terminal is teed to a small process.
• a custom PROMPT_COMMAND on the remote emits each history item to stdout each time the user hits 'enter'
• The PROMPT_COMMAND also deletes the emitted history item from the screen by messing with the cursor.
• Back on the local machine, the aforementioned small process sees the history item and emits it to a file.