Atuin
Sync, search and back up your shell history
Atuin replaces your shell history with a SQLite database and provides an optional self-hostable sync server for encrypted history sharing across machines. It adds full-text search and contextual filtering.
Key features
- Searchable shell history
- Self-hosted encrypted sync
- Cross-machine history
- SQLite-backed
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 31.1k GitHub stars
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