Different history for different terminals

guyaloni

11/16/23, 12:39 PM

I would like to have something like "history environment", so for different consoles I can access different histories.

I have different terminals defined, I would like to have for each terminal its own history:

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command-line

gnome-terminal

bash-history

terdon

11/16/23, 12:42 PM

Do you need this to survive closing the terminal or opening a new one or do you only need this while the terminal is open? Do you want all commands run in the "Local" terminal, for example, to always be in their own history? So that every time you open a "Local" terminal, you only see commands that were run in such a terminal?

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terdon

11/16/23, 12:51 PM

You can do this by defining different history files for each profile. The history file's name is set by the value of the HISTFILE environment variable. Therefore, setting a custom command for each of your terminal profiles which sets this variable to a specific file and then runs bash will give you a history for each profile:

The command should be:

env HISTFILE=/home/terdon/.bash_history.one bash

Change /home/terdon/.bash_history.one to a name that works on your system, it can be anything you want, but better to have it in your $HOME. Then just set a different file for each profile and you should be done.

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egmont

11/16/23, 4:50 PM

Minor detail: I'd go with `env HISTFILE=... bash`, i.e. using `env` exactly what it was designed for, rather than using the much more heavyweight `bash` as the wrapper.

terdon

11/16/23, 5:16 PM

@egmont duh! Of course! Thank you, should have thought of that myself.

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