If I was smarter I could probably use that. I tried it in the beginning and was just basically keeping an infinite history by catting the history from my old machines into my new.

But then I started doing stuff outside of shell (windows, code snippets, jq and path snippets, etc) and it was getting to be a pain to grep through such a big file. So I applied the 5 minute rule and tried to rely on my laziness as an editor.

Also, while my file isn’t public I don’t keep anything sensitive or that would bother any past, present, or future employers and collaborators so sanitizing the shell history was starting to take time and make me worry that I might miss something.