commandlog

A small set of tools for logging and annotating command-line history in a Linux or Unixlike environment. Requires Perl, sqlite, and zsh. (It probably won't take much to add to Bash, but I haven't tried yet.)

So far, this is about an hour's worth of messing around one evening. It doesn't do much. Here's what I know works:

git clone git@github.com:brennen/commandlog
cd commandlog
perl Build.PL
sudo ./Build install

Next, put the following in your .zshrc:

function preexec {
  commandlog add "$@"
}

Or, if using Oh-My-Zsh:

function commandlog_preexec {
  commandlog add "$@"
}
add-zsh-hook preexec commandlog_preexec

Now, with any luck, you can use:

commandlog log

And you should get output something like the following:

              id = 96
         command = commandlog log
expanded_command = commandlog log
            path = /home/brennen/code/commandlog
        hostname = exuberance
        username = brennen
           shell = /usr/bin/zsh
        terminal = xterm
           notes = 
        datetime = 2016-10-26 03:56:12

              id = 95
         command = vim README.md
expanded_command = vim README.md
            path = /home/brennen/code/commandlog
        hostname = exuberance
        username = brennen
           shell = /usr/bin/zsh
        terminal = xterm
           notes = 
        datetime = 2016-10-26 03:48:40

              id = 94
         command = ll
expanded_command = ls --color -l
            path = /home/brennen/code/commandlog
        hostname = exuberance
        username = brennen
           shell = /usr/bin/zsh
        terminal = xterm
           notes = 
        datetime = 2016-10-26 03:48:30

No promises though. If anybody tries this and has thoughts, please do let me know.

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