The problem with bash history#

At some point I thought it was a good idea to have a timestamp for every command executed in the terminal.

As a small preamble to the upcoming article about debugging bash scripts via Eclipse, here’s a note that there is a port called win-bash — a console for Windows.

Yes, everyone knows about Cygwin, but it has certain quirks. Here we have an archive that you just unpack, add to PATH (and then plug into Eclipse and debug, debug…)