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I'd be quite interested in someone provided this sort of thing as a SaaS-like drop-in to Bash and Zsh if someone wants a fun weekend project..

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You could really do some interesting stuff with this. Automatically recommend aliases and show how many keystrokes you would have saved for example.

Stuff like swiftkey automatically recommends next words, it might not be that difficult to have a similar system for a shell. Sounds like a fun idea actually.

Oh, relevant XKCD. https://xkcd.com/1068/

Could be risky if the recommendations for "rm" are "-rf" and "/".

http://shell-sink.blogspot.com/ used to provide this service - it was what I based my project on.

I'll see what I can do for a hosted/SaaS system this weekend.

Any luck? :)

I started working on something myself--should have something out in a day or two :)

FYI this has been a side project of mine for a while. I call it Bashhub. Check it out if you're interested! Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.

https://github.com/rcaloras/bashhub-client

https://bashhub.com

https://bashhub.com/u/rccola

I've wanted this as well... plus keep track of how long commands took to run and (heck, why not?) output!

this must be some kind of record, in 15 words you took something great, started adding unnecessary, creeping features, and ended up with bloatware no one wants to use anymore :)

Usually this takes years!

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