https://sfalken.tech/tags/atuin/ Recent content in Atuin on The Crimson Permanent Assurance Hugo -- 0.160.1 en-us The Crimson Permanent Assurance © 2024 by Shawn W Dunn is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:15:29 -0700 https://sfalken.tech/posts/2026-07-02-per-container-atuin-history/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:15:29 -0700 https://sfalken.tech/posts/2026-07-02-per-container-atuin-history/ <h1 id="separating-atuin-shell-history-per-distrobox-container">Separating Atuin shell history per Distrobox container</h1> <p>By default Atuin keeps a single shell history database in <code>~/.local/share/atuin</code>, since home directories are shared into every Distrobox container, that means every container is dumping its history into the <em>same</em> database. That&rsquo;s not great — history from one distrobox ends up mixed in with others.</p> <p>The fix is to give each container its own Atuin data directory, keyed off the container name, while leaving the host with the original untouched database.</p>