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Ah, a fellow packrat! I have every command I ever typed into a shell since around 2005, and my history weighs in at 1 CD or 650MB (as of a couple of years ago)

I'm probably being wasteful of space because I store each session in a separate file. I used to do a lot of data analysis at the shell back in the day, and found it useful to audit sequences of commands afterwards for mistakes, or to turn them into scripts.



This is so insane that I love it. Do you also save your belly button lint since 2005? Or nail clippings? :)


I'm only a digital packrat. Bits are so much cheaper to hoard, even deciding to throw something away is often more work.


This is more like saving your old notebooks and drafts, only that they don't take any meaningful space. Or like having a revision control system.

Do you rebase your git repos regularly to delete commits older than 6 months?


Do you regularly back up your history?


Oh yes. It gets backed up along with everything else.




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