Comment by mmh0000

I read this article in horror. Even after he said he kept /only/ the last 9800 commands.

  ⟩ history | wc -l
  170919 

I have (deduplicated) shell history with timestamps going back years. A little bit of CTRL+R and `history | grep …` I never have to remember how I did some arcane magic in the past, just that I did.