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Atuin: A Terminal Utility Worth Trying

A quick note about Atuin, a terminal utility that makes shell history more useful with fuzzy search and a full command history list.

Atuin: A Terminal Utility Worth Trying

I've been using Atuin for a while now, and I can fairly say I'll keep using it.

The tagline on the website is, "Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin." That is actually a very accurate description of what you get. I have mostly been enjoying the search part.

The two things that make it useful for me are fuzzy search and the ability to see my full command history in a list. Shell history is already useful, but Atuin makes it feel a lot easier to browse, search, and reuse.

What I like most is that Atuin does one thing very well. I use most of what it offers, and it refines my toolkit without overhauling it. Worth trying if you spend a lot of time in the command line.