Export Repl Command History To Script File

The article delves into exporting and visualizing command history in Xonsh, a Python-like programming language. It explores various methods for achieving this, including using the script command, %history magic, nbterm, jpterm, recording on *nix platforms, and more. Additionally, it discusses session details such as exit codes, timestamps, environment variables, and general terminal recording.

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xonsh has rich history per session which includes session id, command exit code, timestamp, environment variables etc.

# view input history
history
# view history file save path
history file
# commit history to file
history flush

To view the commands:

cat <history_json_file> | jq .data.cmds

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general purpose terminal recorder, available in most *nix platforms:

script <record_filename>

to render the recorded file as plain text, run the following python script:

import pyte
typescript_path = "mytypescript.log"
output_path = "typescript_plain.log"
# Specify the desired screen dimensions (columns x rows)
columns = 80 # please remember the columns for godsake.
# if you think it would be slow, use pypy instead.
rows = 100000 # what could go wrong now?
# Create a Screen object with the specified dimensions
screen = pyte.Screen(columns, rows)
# Create a ByteStream to handle ANSI control codes
stream = pyte.ByteStream(screen)
typescript_bytes = open(typescript_path,'rb').read()
# Insert ANSI control codes
stream.feed(typescript_bytes)
# Get the content with ANSI control codes
content = screen.display
plain_content ="\n".join(content).strip()
# Write the content to a file
with open(output_path, "w+") as file:
file.write(plain_content)

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for ipython one use %history for viewing history.

# view current session history
%history
# write to file
%history -f ipython_output.log
# view all history across all sessions
%history -g
# view specific session history, like session 1
%history 1/
# -o for showing output, -p for appending ">>>" in front of input lines, -t for translating magic functions into valid python code
%history -opt
# for more, type the %quickref command and type /hist<Enter>
# detailed reference can be found in %magic

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terminal jupyter notebook

• nbterm

• jpterm original rewrite of nbterm, with textualize

• keybindings

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运行py的交互式命令行 如果想输出最近的操作 可以运行下面的代码

# please define "history_output_path" beforehand
import readline
# Get the total number of history items in the current session
history_length = readline.get_current_history_length()
# Iterate over each history item and print the command
with open(history_output_path, 'w+') as f:
for i in range(1, history_length + 1):
item = readline.get_history_item(i)
print(item)
f.write(item+"\n")

在pdb中 或者在breakpoint断点中 只能获取到当前会话的历史

import readline; print([readline.get_history_item(i+1) for i in range(readline.get_current_history_length())])

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Hackers are good at converting arbitrary actions into scripts.

At every step below we need file records.

Thoughs -> Actions -> Scripts -> Programs -> Systems

Human learn from trial and error, which is the origin of every good program, and REPL can be a better place than web based jupyter notebook. So we might want to find some command line alternative to jupyter.

Typically we need history, command output, filter out those errorneous commands, and save the output.

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R has that functionality.

# only current session history is keeped.
saveHistory("history.R")
# view history in popup
history()

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metasploit history file location: ~/.msf4/history