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Comment by ranting-moth | Hacker News Reader

This is the feature I've been looking for:

"log exit code, cwd, hostname, session, command duration, etc"

you can mostly do that in bash:

    export PROMPT_COMMAND='if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S") $(pwd) $(history 1)" >> ~/stuff/logs/bash-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log; fi'

makes files like

    stuff/logs/bash-history-2023-05-06.log

that contain

    2023-05-06.11:42:38 /home/dv  3737  2023-05-06 11:42:38 cat .bashrc

then you can make some commands to grep through this

Or use the excellent bash-preexec plugin that atuin itself relies on to achieve this in a cleaner way: https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec

Xonsh has this. It’s super cool after using it for a while.

There's a PR opened (that I still need to review...) that adds even more fields such as shell type and opt-in environment variables to this list.

One day, you could search for that AWS cli command run specifically on AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=foo

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