If you work in shell/terminal often enough, then over time the history will become your personal knowledge vault, documentation and command reference. Being able to use this personal documentation efficiently can hugely boost your productivity. So, here are a couple of tips on how to optimize your shell history configuration and usage to get the most out of it. Configuration I use ZSH and Oh My Zsh, so tips in this article will focus on ZSH, but similar results can be achieved for Bash or other ...