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I‘ve been doing this ever since I migrated from Windows to Mac in 2015. My bash history has over 40k lines, datestamped. I can recall any command I have typed in my terminal in the past seven years. Extremely helpful whenever I need to repeat anything in the terminal.

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I sometimes add comments to commands via `# This‘ll do this and that` so that I can find the command by those keywords in the bash history.

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This. I've been doing this for a couple of years now, I'm really used to it. I've been "traveling" with my history that is over 70k lines. My dot alias file has only 3 aliases (c=clear, q=exit, gti=git).

Hope there's a project out there that helps parse, rank, or do something with a file like this. There must be interesting information.

Is gti=git for capturing typos or some other reason?

It's a typo, but I make it a lot!

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but my bash history is missing many of my commands. I assumed it was due to poor handling of multiple open terminal windows and tabs.

Is there something you are doing so the different sessions don't clobber each other?

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