Sounds like exactly what atuin does, atuin probably adds more metadata to track the success of the command and the working directory though.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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I like atuin, but I wish it had an option to behave more like bash does. Bash loads your "global" history on starting a new shell, but afterwards doesn't load commands from different shell sessions into that shell's history. As far as I could find, atuin is either entirely global, syncing commands from other sessions as you execute them, or entirely session-based, as in your current history is just empty on launch. I don't like either of those options.
I guess I just want the search of atuin but otherwise default bash behaviour.
+1 for atuin, great tool
I think, I will borrow the idea, but I likely will use more a log-style date format in the persistent history file like this: [2026-01-09 12:34:56] command
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