bash terminal multi-tab history

Question

I want a reliable solution to hold every command in every terminal-tab in my bash history?

With timestamps, ordered, last commands last, and unique.

While open, each tab has its own list, so that I can use history expansion with PS1.

And new tabs take as the basis all the current and past commands.

Answer 1

I have all my stuff in a single file, .bash_aliases, which get sourced in .bashrc:

HISTMY="$HOME/.bash_history"    
touch $HISTMY

HISTSIZE=-1
HISTFILESIZE=-1
HISTCONTROL='ignoredups:ignorespace'
HISTTIMEFORMAT="|%d.%m._%a_%T|  "
HISTMYTERM=${HISTMY}_`tty|sed 's|^/dev/||;s|/|_|g'`

PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a $HISTMYTERM'

export MYHISTLOCK="/tmp/.my.hist.lock"

every tab has his file: .bash_history_pts_{0..}
plus the current .bash_history with old stuff

FBashHist ()
{
    local perl_history=$(cat <<'EOF'
########################################
#line 1526
use v5.10;

$file = $ARGV[0];
@ARGV = glob "$file*";

$time = "#" . (time - 1_000_000);

while (<>) {
    s/^\s*//;
    s/\s*$//;

    next if length() < 4;

    if (/^#\d{9,}$/) {
        $time = $_;
    }
    else {
        $cmd = $_;

        if (exists $hash{$cmd}) {
            next if $hash{$cmd} ge $time;
        }
        $hash{$cmd} = $time;
    }
}

@keys = sort { $hash{$a} cmp $hash{$b} } keys %hash;

@keys = reverse @keys;
@keys = splice(@keys, 0, 8000);  # cmds to save
@keys = reverse @keys;

foreach $key ( @keys ) {
    push @hist, "$hash{$key}\n$key\n";
}

open BA, ">$file" or die "cant open '$file' for write: $!";
print BA @hist;
close BA;

EOF
)
###############################

perl -E "$perl_history" $HISTMY
}

A perl hash is per se unique, so I use it for commands. The values are the timestamps.

It must be ensured that this init runs on reboot for all tabs only once.

I use flock from util-linux. It creates an empty file, which locks the tabs. With append (>>), later runs don't reset it.

After 10 seconds, more than enough time to init, a rerun is possible.

### call with init lock
(
    flock -x 9

    if [ ! -s $MYHISTLOCK ]; then
        echo $$ >$MYHISTLOCK

        FBashHist
    else
        l=`stat -c %Y $MYHISTLOCK`

        (( $l )) && d=`date +%s` && ((d -= 10))

        if (( $l < $d )); then
            touch $MYHISTLOCK

            FBashHist
        fi
    fi
) 9>>$MYHISTLOCK
sleep 1