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    History

    The suv history command prints your command history to stdout. Unlike suv search (interactive TUI) or suv export (bulk data), suv history is designed for quick lookups and piping to other tools like grep, jq, or wc.

    Basic Usage

    Show the last 25 commands (newest first):

    suv history

    Show the last 100 commands:

    suv history -n 100

    Filtering

    All standard filters are available:

    # Commands from today
    suv history --after today
    
    # Failed commands in the current directory
    suv history --here --exit-code 1
    
    # Agent-executed commands from the last week
    suv history --executor agent --after "7 days ago"
    
    # Commands in a specific directory
    suv history --cwd ~/projects/myapp
    
    # Filter by tag
    suv history --tag work --after yesterday

    JSON Output

    Use --json for machine-readable JSONL output (one JSON object per line):

    # Pipe to jq
    suv history --json -n 10 | jq '.command'
    
    # Count commands per directory
    suv history --json -n 1000 | jq -r '.cwd' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
    
    # Find slow commands
    suv history --json --after today | jq 'select(.duration_ms > 5000) | .command'

    Piping

    When piped, ANSI colors are automatically disabled:

    # Search for cargo commands
    suv history -n 500 | grep cargo
    
    # Count unique commands
    suv history -n 10000 | awk '{print $NF}' | sort -u | wc -l

    Flags Reference

    Flag Description
    -n, --limit <N>Number of entries to show (default: 25)
    --after <DATE>Show commands after date (YYYY-MM-DD, "today", "yesterday", "N days ago")
    --before <DATE>Show commands before date
    --tag <TAG>Filter by tag name
    --exit-code <N>Filter by exit code (0 = success)
    --executor <EXEC>Filter by executor (e.g., "agent", "human")
    --hereFilter to current directory
    --cwd <DIR>Filter to a specific directory
    --jsonOutput as JSON lines (one JSON object per line)