Atuin

Magical shell history

• store shell history in a sqlite database
• back up e2e encrypted history to the cloud, and synchronize between machines
• log exit code, cwd, hostname, session, command duration, etc
• smart interactive history search to replace ctrl-r
• calculate statistics such as "most used command"
• old history file is not replaced

Documentation

• Quickstart
• Install
• Import
• Configuration
• Searching history
• Cloud history sync
• History stats

Supported Shells

• zsh

Quickstart

curl https://github.com/ellie/atuin/blob/main/install.sh | bash

atuin register -u <USERNAME> -e <EMAIL> -p <PASSWORD>
atuin import auto
atuin sync

Install

AUR

Atuin is available on the AUR

yay -S atuin # or your AUR helper of choice

With cargo

It's best to use rustup to get setup with a Rust toolchain, then you can run:

cargo install atuin

From source

git clone https://github.com/ellie/atuin.git
cd atuin
cargo install --path .

Shell plugin

Once the binary is installed, the shell plugin requires installing. Add

eval "$(atuin init)"

to your .zshrc

...what's with the name?

Atuin is named after "The Great A'Tuin", a giant turtle from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books.