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Comment by maleldil | Hacker News Reader

It looks like it's not possible to export the history to a format the shell can import[0], so if I wanted to try this out, my commands would be locked there.

It looks interesting, so if I'm overlooking a way to do this with fish, I'd experiment with it.

[0]: https://github.com/ellie/atuin/issues/816

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You can use sqlite[0] to export the database, or if you want a ui, use datasette[1]. On my mac, the database is stored at ~/.local/share/atuin/history.db

[0] https://sqlite.org/cli.html#export_to_csv [1] https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/csv_export.html

We’d like to be able to also export history, but atuin doesn’t actually stop your old shell history from functioning either

So you could uninstall it, and you won’t have lost a thing

Sounds good, thank you! I'll start playing with it.

If you just want to experiement with it for say a couple of weeks, does it really matter that the commands from those few weeks disappear if you decide not to continue using it?

Presumably you already have a long history of commands from past years in the original format. And if your command line usage is similar to mine, then most of the commands you will use in the future will be covered by your existing history.

So if a few weeks of experimenting with atuin ends with you deciding not to use atuin, then probably you will be fine going back to the old history files that do not include those weeks of activity.

It’d be pretty trivial to do this yourself though, shell history files are very simple

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