Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

This might sound strange, but one of the things I shave always wanted are what I would call "routes" --> A journey one goes down to either connect to something through some circuitous method, so to save that. Or to attempt to install or implement something that keeps package-creeping on you, so you could just have massive undo route. Or to be able to send someone a route that they can just watch, read or playback on their system. (obviously you'd need validation, auth, logging, etc- but savable, sharable cli route would be pretty dope, unless something like this exists and im an idiot.... (this is different than orchestration, it should be a native capability of the shell)

I've read your comment a couple of times, and I think (maybe) I finally understand it.

I don't think hucksh (or any shell) could provide an automatic way to undo some series of arbitrary commands. If nothing else, "/bin/rm" is forever, generally speaking.

What it could do is let you select individual commands and then automatically combine them all into a single command that you can save or copy&paste to someone else. Right now, the UI shows the command ID, which is a database key, so you could do something similar yourself, something along the lines of

  hucksh sql "select command
    from command_history
    where id in (101, 103, 105, 107, 109)
    order by id"

where the "101, 103, 105, ..." are the IDs of the commands you entered and want to reify into a single "one-liner". Noting them and entering them by hand would be a drag, but it'd work.

Hope this helps. If I've misunderstood you in some way, let me know. Thanks for your comment, regardless. :)

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