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### Experimental |
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## What is this? |
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I am experimenting with the idea of a distributed shell history. The goal is to |
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be able to search your shell history across different bash processes easily. |
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And potentially different computers. |
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This uses UNIX Domain Sockets to communicate with a server written in Racket. |
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Each Racket thread corresponds to a shell process, and they receive shell |
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commands as messages. If you want to get the history for a given process, you |
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simply send a message to a thread and then it sends you back the history. |
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Unix Domain Sockets are ideal for this, as they are less likely to conflict |
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with other services running on the machine (you specify a path, not a port). As |
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well, they are more robust than FIFOs because they can handle multiple |
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concurrent connections easily. |
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At some point in the future, part of this may be rewritten in C, Pony, or |
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Erlang, or a combination of all three. |
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1. Compile `server.rkt` with `raco exe server.rkt` |
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2. Run `./server` |
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3. Run `source shelltalk.sh` |
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