Life & fun · December 27, 2020
History suggest box for your shell
History suggest box for your shell launched on December 27, 2020 with 67 votes, #729 of 3,242 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
In plain words
This is a shell utility that provides command-line history suggestions while you type. It helps users recall and reuse previous commands more efficiently by offering relevant suggestions based on their current input. The tool is designed for developers and command-line users who want to speed up their terminal workflow. It launched in late 2020 and is available on GitHub.
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Ah – a better history2014 · github.com · ▲60A better history. Contribute to 9seconds/ah development by creating an account on GitHub.
Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands2022 · oh-heck.dev · ▲250Always Googling those pesky Terminal commands? Use AI to find the commands for you from within the command line.
HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history2018 · github.com · ▲33Bash and Zsh shell history TUI suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history. - dvorka/hstr
HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable2022 · github.com · ▲179hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context (what directory you ran the command it, whether it succeeded or failed, how long it took, etc). This is all stored locally and end-to-end encrypted for syncing to to all your other computers. All of this is easily queryable via Control-R and via the hishtory CLI. This means from your laptop, you can easily find that complex bash pipeline you wrote on your server, and see the context in which you ran it.
Smarter Shell History for ZshAug 2026 · github.com · ▲16Smarter shell history for Zsh. Contribute to overflowy/zhist development by creating an account on GitHub.
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