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hui: A visual alternative to history written in Rust

Rust

hui is a command-line tool to visualize and search your shell history. The source code is available on GitHub.

Quickly searching through history with hui
Quickly searching through history with hui

Overview

hui is command-line tool to quickly search through your terminal history. The motivation behind this tool was having a prettier and faster way to do history | grep <search>. I would do this frequently to remember some docker or curl command I had done recently, but couldn’t remember the flags I used. This now lets me search through my history and copy the command I want a lot easier.

hui is built on top of ratatui for its TUI, or Terminal User Interface.