> I am curious how having your history is your greatest force multiplier.

Doing a ctrl + r to fuzzy search the history is very powerful. I could honestly not imagine working without that. Do you never have to type the same command twice, or re-use common commands?

I tend to just make a habit of memorizing commands that I repeatedly use. That or I make a script to automate it if I find myself repeating the same action.

I've seen somebody with a 1k+ lines long bashrc. They apparently put every useful command in there. Not sure how much better that approach is, I suppose it's similar to using bookmarks vs browsing history.

$ wc -l .zsh_history

   71114 .zsh_history

history != config file ;)

You'd have to compare your .zshrc to their .bashrc

If it is something I used recently, I use ctrl+R or up arrow, but if it’s not there anymore, I just retype. It’s not so bad for me.

Bash history does suck, at least out of the box. My history use has become consistent and frequent after I started using fish.

To set in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile:

    export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h %d %H:%M:%S "
    export HISTSIZE=100000

My ~/.bash_history averages 22 bytes per line.