About

Shell History Cleaner is a simple program that cleans the bash/shell history for you.

Shell history is the commands that you see when pressing Up or Ctrl R (to search) in the terminal.

Use

Install Rust/cargo. After that: ```sh cargo install --force shell-history-cleaner

shell-history-cleaner --dedup "$HISTFILE" # remove duplicates shell-history-cleaner --dedup --remove 'youtube-dl .*' "$HISTFILE" # also remove video downloads ```

Help

``` USAGE: shell-history-cleaner [OPTIONS]

ARGS: Target file to clean. You can use "$HISTFILE" to clean up the shell history.

OPTIONS: -d, --dedup De-duplicate lines to only keep one last occurrence of each dup.

-r, --remove <REMOVE>
        Lines to remove. For example, 'yt-dlp.*' will remove lines starting with 'yt-dlp'.
        Can be specified multiple times.

        The patterns are regular expressions, assuming the whole line is matched, as defined
        here: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/#syntax

        Another real-life example:
        '(ps aux.*|git checkout .*|git branch .*| .*|yt-dlp .*|chmod .*|echo .*|man .*)'

-h, --help
        Print help information

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Useful references

Make your bash history unlimited: https://superuser.com/a/664061/162466

Implementation details

This program loads the file contents in memory. Don't use this script if your history file is 1Gb (hope not it's not though:)

License

GPLv3 or, at your option, any later version of the license.
Main GitLab repo: https://gitlab.com/vn971/shell-history-cleaner
Github mirror: https://github.com/vn971/shell-history-cleaner