On 17 September 2010 13:55, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17Sep2010 13:23, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | On 17 September 2010 12:45, Andy Blanchard <zocalo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | > Can you boil the commands that you don't want included in the history
> | > file to a series of regular expressions such as the following:
> | >
> | > ^cd
> | > ^ls
> | > ^rm
> | >
> | > If so, you can create a list of these regular expressions in a file,
> | > then use the ~/.bash_logout script to clean up the history:
> |
> | This is an excellent idea! I'll give this a shot. Coming up with the
> | proper regex shouldn't be too difficult.
>
> For myself, solving not-quite-your-problem, I contrive to log my
> commands with a timestamp to an entirely separate history file
> (~/var/log/shell), thus:
>
> : 20091119T115602; time ./backup-root-spare.sh
> : 20091119T115656; cd /opt
>
> Just as many users have an alias "h=history" I also have small shell
> function:
>
> hh()
> { grepall ${1+"$@"} <"$LOGDIR/shell"
> }
>
> to search this file. (Grepall's a small script to look for lines
> containing all words on the command line, so:
>
> [home/cameron]janus*> hh root spare
> : 20091119T115505; less backup-root-spare.sh
> : 20091119T115602; time ./backup-root-spare.sh
>
> This means I don't care above preventing particular commands getting
> into my history because I have an easy way to search the history
> quite selectively.
>
> The neat thing about that log format is that ":" is a legitimate shell
> command, so I can cut/paste the whole line to reuse it instead of aiming
> more precisely:-)
>
> I'm doing this with zsh, which has a handy function it runs just before
> every command is issued. I'd like to know if bash has similar, since I'm
> force to use bash on some systems (notably recent Fedora, when my env
> trips a memory issue in zsh somehow). Zsh runs preexec() before each
> command, so I have:
>
> preexec()
> {
> loghistory "$1"
> ttyl "$1"
> last_cmdline=$1
> [ -n "$_slavefd" ] && toslave "$3"
> }
>
> where loghistory is:
>
> loghistory()
> {
> _lh_line=": `date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S`; $*"
> ##echo -E "$_lh_line" >>"$BASH_HISTFILE" # give up trying to support bash's stupid history
> if [ -n "$LOGDIR" ] && [ -d "$LOGDIR/." ]
> then echo -E "$_lh_line" >>"$LOGDIR/shell"
> fi
> }
>
> Cheers,
Thanks Cameron. This was very helpful. I also save my history to a
separate file with timestamps. But I did not have a easy way of
searching it. Hence my question. With what you suggest things will
become a lot simpler.
Thank you very much for the suggestions.
> --
> Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
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