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Show HN: Envoy – Command Logger

https://github.com/heyyviv/envoy
11•heyviv•5mo ago
Envoy is a lightweight, background utility that logs your terminal commands. It's designed to be a simple and unobtrusive way to keep a history of your shell usage, which can be useful for debugging, tracking work, or just remembering what you did.

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atmanactive•5mo ago
I'm confused: doesn't bash already log all commands in it's history file?
000ooo000•5mo ago
The readme uses history so surely the author knows this?

    function preexec_go() {
      local command_line=$(history 1 | sed 's/^ *[0-9]* *//')
      if [[ -n "$command_line" && "$command_line" != "preexec_go" ]]; then
        # CHANGE THIS PATH to the location of your 'envoy' executable
        ( 
    ~/Desktop/projects/envoy/envoy "$command_line" >/dev/null 2>&1 & ) disown
      fi
    }
    trap 'preexec_go' DEBUG
trenchpilgrim•5mo ago
...is this program just copying lines from shell history inti a different file?
jbstack•5mo ago
I think the point isn't what the author knows or does not know but rather a question for the rest of us - what does this tool offer that bash history doesn't?

The list of features on the Github page doesn't provide an answer:

- Starts and stops on demand: Only logs commands when you explicitly turn it on.

- Saves to a custom file: You can specify the log file name.

- Cross-platform: Works on both Linux and macOS using bash or zsh.

- Minimal overhead: Runs in the background and has no noticeable impact on shell performance.

Bash largely covers all of those too.

nvader•5mo ago
In charity, I think there is actually a product opportunity for improvements to the standard shell histfile.

I've often been frustrated by my history not being easily shared between concurrent terminals, difficulties in searching, and lack of other metadata such as timestamp, duration and exit code.

Although I suspect this repo was vibe-coded so far, I think there's a promising problem to solve here.

PeterWhittaker•5mo ago
Not at my computer so I cannot share the sauce, but each mahcine I use has a shared bash eternal history - shared between every interactive bash instance on that machine, using nothing but bashisms.

If I think of it later, I'll add it....

jerrygenser•5mo ago
Why do you suspect it was vibe coded? There are 2 substantive files that are each less than 100 lines...

Also the readme doesn't have the usual emojis for every bullet point.

trenchpilgrim•5mo ago
The godoc on logging.go is in the "AI style" rather than in the style of a typical godoc.
000ooo000•5mo ago
Comments on every other line stating what the line does is very LLM
jpitz•5mo ago
Then you should look at https://atuin.sh/ although I am not certain about exit code.
theshrike79•5mo ago
How does this differ from Atuin? https://atuin.sh
000ooo000•5mo ago
Well this one looks like AI slop, so..

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