On: Fly through your shell history

[tambourine_man]

> 65535

Why limit yourself to 16bit?

[hawski → tambourine_man]

Just a big enough number and I punish myself as I would like to create my own shell/terminal thing and use that instead.

[tambourine_man → hawski]

I hope you get to it eventually, but if you do, consider 32 bits instead.

Computers are fast, memory is cheap and 16 bits is not that big. My .bash_history is clocking at 55814 now with dedup on. Granted, it's beeing going for years, but still, no reason to punish yourself.

[samstave → tambourine_man]

>>>55814 now with dedup on. Granted, it's beeing going for years

As you can see, Mr. Anderson, we've been keeping our eye on you for some time now

[tambourine_man → samstave]

I wish

[jefftk → tambourine_man]

Important! My history file on my laptop is up to 200,342.

[tambourine_man → jefftk]

With dedup on? That’s some serious typing.

[jefftk → tambourine_man]

Dedup off, since I use my history to reconstruct things I've done and for that I want the full sequence of commands.

Checking now it's 104,545 unique commands. It goes back to April 2012.

Note that this is just my laptop; things I've run on my work computer or when ssh'd somewhere else aren't included.