Config

Atuin maintains two configuration files, stored in ~/.config/atuin/. We store data in ~/.local/share/atuin (unless overridden by XDG_*).

You can also change the path to the configuration directory by setting ATUIN_CONFIG_DIR. For example

export ATUIN_CONFIG_DIR = /home/ellie/.atuin

Client config

~/.config/atuin/config.toml

The client runs on a user's machine, and unless you're running a server, this is what you care about.

See config.toml for an example

db_path

The path to the Atuin SQlite database. Defaults to ~/.local/share/atuin/history.db.

db_path = "~/.history.db"

key_path

The path to the Atuin encryption key. Defaults to ~/.local/share/atuin/key.

key = "~/.atuin-key"

session_path

The path to the Atuin server session file. Defaults to ~/.local/share/atuin/session. This is essentially just an API token

key = "~/.atuin-session"

dialect

This configures how the stats command parses dates. It has two possible values

dialect = "uk"

or

dialect = "us"

and defaults to "us".

auto_sync

Configures whether or not to automatically sync, when logged in. Defaults to true

auto_sync = true/false

update_check

Configures whether or not to automatically check for updates. Defaults to true.

update_check = true/false

sync_address

The address of the server to sync with! Defaults to https://api.atuin.sh.

sync_address = "https://api.atuin.sh"

sync_frequency

How often to automatically sync with the server. This can be given in a "human-readable" format. For example, 10s, 20m, 1h, etc. Defaults to 1h.

If set to 0, Atuin will sync after every command. Some servers may potentially rate limit, which won't cause any issues.

sync_frequency = "1h"

search_mode

Which search mode to use. Atuin supports "prefix", "fulltext", "fuzzy", and "skim" search modes.

Prefix mode searches for "query*"; fulltext mode searches for "*query*"; "fuzzy" applies the fuzzy search syntax; "skim" applies the skim search syntax.

Defaults to "fuzzy".

fuzzy search syntax

The "fuzzy" search syntax is based on the fzf search syntax.

Token	Match type	Description
sbtrkt	fuzzy-match	Items that match sbtrkt
'wild	exact-match (quoted)	Items that include wild
^music	prefix-exact-match	Items that start with music
.mp3$	suffix-exact-match	Items that end with .mp3
!fire	inverse-exact-match	Items that do not include fire
!^music	inverse-prefix-exact-match	Items that do not start with music
!.mp3$	inverse-suffix-exact-match	Items that do not end with .mp3

A single bar character term acts as an OR operator. For example, the following query matches entries that start with core and end with either go, rb, or py.

^core go$ | rb$ | py$

filter_mode

The default filter to use when searching

Column1	Column2
global (default)	Search history from all hosts, all sessions, all directories
host	Search history just from this host
session	Search history just from the current session
directory	Search history just from the current directory

Filter modes can still be toggled via ctrl-r

filter_mode = "host"

filter_mode_shell_up_key_binding

The default filter to use when searching and being invoked from a shell up-key binding.

Accepts exactly the same options as filter_mode above

filter_mode_shell_up_key_binding = "session"

Defaults to the value specified for filter_mode.

style

Which style to use. Possible values: auto, full and compact.

• compact:

• full:

Defaults to auto.

inline_height

Set the maximum number of lines Atuin's interface should take up.

If set to 0 (default), Atuin will always take up as many lines as available (full screen).

show_preview

Configure whether or not to show a preview of the selected command.

Useful when the command is longer than the terminal width and is cut off.

exit_mode

What to do when the escape key is pressed when searching

Value	Behaviour
return-original (default)	Set the command-line to the value it had before starting search
return-query	Set the command-line to the search query you have entered so far

Pressing ctrl+c or ctrl+d will always return the original command-line value.

exit_mode = "return-query"

history_filter

The history filter allows you to exclude commands from history tracking - maybe you want to keep ALL of your curl commands totally out of your shell history, or maybe just some matching a pattern.

This supports regular expressions, so you can hide pretty much whatever you want!

## Note that these regular expressions are unanchored, i.e. if they don't start
## with ^ or end with $, they'll match anywhere in the command.
history_filter = [
   "^secret-cmd",
   "^innocuous-cmd .*--secret=.+"
]