Synchronising Zsh history over the Internet with Oh-My-Zsh and history-sync

James Fraser · April 15, 2016

Oh-My-Zsh   Plugin   Code

“Why doesn’t Oh-My-Zsh have a plugin that allows me to synchronise my Zsh history over the Internet?”

In the project’s 200+ plugin base, not one plugin achieves said functionality, and that’s why I coded history-sync.

The basic concept is:

  1. Encrypt $HOME/.zsh_history as zsh_history using GPG public key encryption on the source computer
  2. Push encrypted zsh_history to a remote Git repository
  3. Pull encrypted zsh_history from said Git repository and decrypt on the destination computer
  4. Merge decrypted zsh_history with $HOME/.zsh_history on destination computer

All of this is achievable using history-sync’s alias commands:

  • zhps -r <string> -r <string> -r ...
  • zhpl
  • zhsync

See the project’s README.md for more detail.

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