mcfly
★ 7.7kMIT LicenseFully Open
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McFly is a terminal-focused shell history assistant that replaces the standard Ctrl-R reverse search with a smarter, context-aware interface. It is designed for people who spend time in Bash, Zsh,...
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PackageSourceSelf-ContainedOffline Capable
Features
- full-screen reverse history search
- context-aware command ranking
- tracks exit status, timestamp, and execution directory
- preserves normal shell history
- history item scrubbing
- Unicode support
- regex-like wildcard search with %
- dump history as JSON or CSV
- support for Bash, Zsh, Fish, and PowerShell
Details
- Last Updated
- Apr 12, 2026
- Created
- Jul 15, 2018
- Install Methods
- package-managersource
- Requirements
- Rust 1.40 or laterSQLite database
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- native-export
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
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