Import previous shell commands

[diegombeltran]

It works flawlessly! Any chance to import previous commands into Loki?

[slim-bean]

Good question! yes there are probably a few ways to do this.

loki-shell/shell/loki-shell.zsh

Lines 24 to 30 in a34d365

	function _send_to_loki() {
	(HISTTIMEFORMAT= builtin history -1 |
	sed 's/^ *\([0-9]*\)\** *//' |
	$HOME/.loki-shell/bin/promtail \
	-config.file=$HOME/.loki-shell/config/promtail-logging-config.yaml \
	--stdin -server.disable=true -log.level=error \
	--client.external-labels=host=$HOST 2>&1 | logger -t loki-shell-promtail &)

I think you could modify the command used to send the files with promtail to dump the entire history and not just the last entry.

I haven't tested this myself, you may want to find a way to test this on a separate Loki, or maybe an ephemeral loki docker container with out any persistent storage just to make sure it does what you want (since we can't really delete from Loki yet, but this is coming in the future)

[Jab2870]

I think a solution to this (if timestamps can be brought across) would go a long way towards #10 .

[slim-bean]

I did this on a machine today, no timestamps but this works for importing the existing shell history

cat ~/.bash_history | $HOME/.loki-shell/bin/promtail -config.file=$HOME/.loki-shell/config/promtail-logging-config.yaml --stdin -server.disable=true -log.level=error --client.external-labels=host=$HOSTNAME