You say this, but then you discover $HISTTIMEFORMAT which helps records when you last ran a command as a comment in the history file and Ctrl+R won’t tell you that information.
The hard part with adopting that, though, is editing in plausible looking dates for commands that were issued before it was set up (or choosing not to and dealing with the confusion until those commands disappear off the top of the history).
Another awesome tip I’ve learned today, thanks! Yeah often I remember the actual day I typed a specific command but must manually scroll through. This is another useful tip. I don’t think I’ll completely let go of history since it’s also super convenient to just look up index and type !345 for example.
You say this, but then you discover
$HISTTIMEFORMATwhich helps records when you last ran a command as a comment in the history file and Ctrl+R won’t tell you that information.The hard part with adopting that, though, is editing in plausible looking dates for commands that were issued before it was set up (or choosing not to and dealing with the confusion until those commands disappear off the top of the history).
Another awesome tip I’ve learned today, thanks! Yeah often I remember the actual day I typed a specific command but must manually scroll through. This is another useful tip. I don’t think I’ll completely let go of history since it’s also super convenient to just look up index and type !345 for example.