Utilities

Excellent Utilities: McFly – navigate through your shell history

Last Updated on May 22, 2022

Other Features

When suggesting a command, McFly takes into account the following factors:

  • The directory where you ran the command. McFly uses the PWD environment variable to determine directory.
  • What commands you typed before the command (e.g., the command’s execution context).
  • The frequency the command is run.
  • The time when the command was last run.
  • Has the command been selected in McFly before?
  • How often you run the command.
  • The command’s historical exit status.

McFly also offers the following functionality:

  • Augments your shell history to track command exit status, timestamp, and execution directory in a SQLite 3 database.
  • Highlights search string in a case-insensitive way.
  • Includes a simple action to scrub any history item from the McFly database and your shell history files. Press F2 and you can delete the selected command from the history.
  • Designed to be extensible for other shells in the future.
  • Replace the default theme with a light mode. It’s useful if you prefer a terminal with a light background.
  • Detect when directories are moved or renamed and updates the history.
  • Generate a training set with the command ‘mcfly train’.
  • Unicode support throughout.

Next page: Page 4 – Summary

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Other Features
Page 4 – Summary


Complete list of articles in this series:

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fkillKill processes quick and easy
fontpreviewQuickly search and preview fonts
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KoohaSimple screen recorder
KOReaderDocument viewer for a wide variety of file formats
ImagineA simple yet effective image optimization tool
LanguageToolStyle and grammar checker for 30+ languages
Liquid PromptAdaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
lnavAdvanced log file viewer for the small-scale; great for troubleshooting
lsdLike exa, lsd is a turbo-charged alternative to ls
Mark TextSimple and elegant Markdown editor
McFlyNavigate through your bash shell history
mdlessFormatted and highlighted view of Markdown files
naviInteractive cheatsheet tool
notiMonitors a command or process and triggers a notification
NushellFlexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
nvitopGPU process management for NVIDIA graphics cards
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pastelGenerate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
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RnoteSketch and take handwritten notes
scrcpyDisplay and control Android devices
StickySimulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery on your desktop
tldrSimplified and community-driven man pages
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TuskAn unofficial Evernote client with bags of potential
UlauncherSublime application launcher
WatsonTrack the time spent on projects
Whoogle SearchSelf-hosted and privacy-focused metasearch engine
ZellijTerminal workspace with batteries included
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