Description:

fastHistory 2.4.2

fastHistory 2 - speed up your terminal!




Intro
Supported systems
Install
Update
Commands and syntax
Copyright and dependencies
License

Store, search and automatically paste all your favourite commands directly in your terminal with a new and faster way!
With the new TDLR-pages integration, you can quickly discover and select more than 10000 ready-to-use command examples, directly in your terminal.

Intro
Why you need it?
How often do you need to reuse a command but you cannot remember it (with all the needed options/flags)?
# example of a common but not so 'easy-to-remember' bash command from my bash history
$ tar -xvzf file.tar.gz

How many times do you search the same commands on Google, over and over?

42 times.. yes.. based on my experience the answer is 42

And how many times have you told yourself to store this super useful command but you didn't?

I saved them all ..totally, with a good and detailed explanation for each command

if you know what I am talking about, fastHistory is the tool you are looking for!
Usage sample
fastHistory can save your commands directly from your terminal, all you need is a #
$ tar -xvzf file.tar.gz #
/\
\-- fastHistory will store 'tar -xvzf file.tar.gz' in its local database

You can specify one or more tags
$ tar -xvzf file.tar.gz #untar #extract #archive

or a description
$ tar -xvzf file.tar.gz #@extract compressed files from archive

or both
$ tar -xvf archive.tar.gz #untar @extract compressed files from archive

To search the saved commands, all you need is f
and the selected command wiil be automatically pasted into your terminal!
$ f

For each stored command you can get a quick summary from the man page
note: this feature does not cover the syntax of all commands

And easily edit the tag and description fields

Furthermore, you can easily export/import all data to make backups or to share your commands with a different machine
$ f --export
$ f --import fastHistory_2020-03-02.db

Discover new commands
In the Discovery mode, you can easily find examples of commands from the TDLR-pages, a collection of community-maintained help pages. The search works both by command name and description. Furthermore, the + icon shows you which command is already installed on your system.

Offline feature
FastHistory does not need any internet connection, so you can use it also offline!
Supported OSs
fastHistory can work in any OS with python3 and a bash terminal
zsh is also supported!
List of tested OSs:



OS
OS Version
Shell
Python versions
fastHistory version
Test mode
Comment




Ubuntu
16.04, 18.04, 20.04*
bash
3.6, 3.7, 3.8
latest
unittest
* xclip may need to be installed to enable the copy-to-clipboard feature


macOS
10.15
bash
3.6, 3.7, 3.8
latest
unittest
python3 needs to be installed


Fedora
29
bash
3.5
2.0.0
manual
pip3 requires the --user flag


Debian
9
bash
3.5
2.3.6
manual



Debian
10
zsh*
3.7
2.0.0
manual
*syntax limitation


Windows*
10 (1809)
bash
3.6
2.4.1
manual
*using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) you can execute and store Windows commands



How to install
Requirements

python3
python3-pip (only for pip3 installation)

Install with pip3

pip3 install fasthistory
$HOME/.local/bin/f
close and reopen your terminal

Note: be sure to not use pip (python2) nor sudo (install it only for the current user)
Install with installer.sh (offline mode)

download the latest release with this easy-to-type link or manually download it

wget mkcn.me/f


move it to the target system
extract it and run the installer with the target user

tar -xvzf f
cd fastHistory-X.X
./installer.sh


close and reopen your terminal
(optional) delete installation files

rm -r f fastHistory-X.X



All in one-line
cd $(mktemp -d /tmp/f.XXXXX) && wget https://mkcn.me/f && tar -xvzf f && ./fastHistory-*/installer.sh && cd -
How to update
Update with f (available from 2.1.1)

f --update
close and reopen your terminal

Update with pip3

pip3 install -U --no-cache-dir fasthistory
f
close and reopen your terminal

Update with installer.sh

same steps as installation

Note: to update from the 1.x.x version your need to follow these steps
How to uninstall

download the installer script and make it executable

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkcn/fastHistory/master/installer.sh
chmod +x installer.sh


run it with the uninstall flag

./installer.sh -u



Note: pip3 install fasthistory is not sufficient to uninstall fastHistory
Commands and systax
Find out more about commands and syntax in the Wiki section
Copyright and dependencies

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

goal: collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
changes: The page folder has been copied to support offline mode and the syntax modified to improve the search speed
code section: fastHistory/tldr/tldr/


https://github.com/wong2/pick

goal: python module modified to build the command-selection menu
code section: fastHistory/pick


https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec

goal: bash script used to hook the commands from the terminal
code section: fastHistory/bash/bash-preexec.sh


https://pypi.org/project/pyperclip/

goal: copy-to-clipboard feature
code section: (optional) pip module


https://pypi.org/project/bashlex/

goal: parse commands to fill the 'Man page info' section
code section: (optional) pip module



License
The license for this is the same as that used by GNU bash, GNU GPL v3+.

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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