Atuin

magical shell history

exit code, duration, time and command shown

• store shell history in a sqlite database
• backup encrypted shell history to the cloud
• the same history across terminals, across session, and across 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
• bash

Quickstart

bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ellie/atuin/main/install.sh)

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

Install

Script (recommended)

The install script will help you through the setup, ensuring your shell is properly configured. It will also use one of the below methods, preferring the system package manager where possible (AUR, homebrew, etc etc).

# do not run this as root, root will be asked for if required
bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ellie/atuin/main/install.sh)

With cargo

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

cargo install atuin

AUR

Atuin is available on the AUR

yay -S atuin # or your AUR helper of choice

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. If you use the install script, this should all be done for you!

zsh

echo 'eval "$(atuin init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc

bash

We need to setup some hooks, so first install bash-preexec:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec/master/bash-preexec.sh -o ~/.bash-preexec.sh
echo '[[ -f ~/.bash-preexec.sh ]] && source ~/.bash-preexec.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

Then setup Atuin

echo 'eval "$(atuin init bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

...what's with the name?

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