BASHHISTORY

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BASH_HISTORY

Shell History Preview.

At a glance

How much Poka reads

B2 Broad. The common content of the current and the common older versions is decoded. Some named features or versions are not, and are listed.

Confidence: medium (the reviewer read the code). Basis: Reviewed 2026-10-26: read parsers/poka-shell-history/src/main.rs (191 lines) and plugin.json. No unit tests or tests/samples.rs; the corpus has no .bash_history, .zsh_history and .history sample. Covers .bash_history, .zsh_history and .history. The table lists every command with its time where the file records one (bash #timestamp lines or zsh extended history). Judgement: B2: every entry is shown; the gaps are limits, redaction by design and fields left raw.

What Poka does not read

• zsh's metafied bytes are not unmetafied, so non-ASCII text can show wrongly (judgement from the code)
• Multi-line commands are split into lines (judgement from the code)
• The zsh elapsed-time field is not shown
• Only the first 2,000 commands are listed

Libraries

Libraries Poka uses or has assessed for this format, with the status, licence and language the registry records.

• shellist (candidate; MIT; Rust; https://docs.rs/crate/shellist/0.3.0) — Library and CLI that parses bash, zsh and fish history; version 0.3.0 page checked.
• Plaso (bash_history text plugin) (candidate; Apache-2.0; Python; https://plaso.readthedocs.io/en/stable/_modules/plaso/parsers/text_plugins/bash_history.html) — Forensic timeline engine; plugin parses # epoch timestamp lines and multi-line commands. Licence taken from the main Plaso repository page.

Sources

• parsers/poka-shell-history/src/main.rs
• parsers/poka-shell-history/plugin.json