How To Install hstr on CentOS 8

hstr is Suggest box like shell history completion

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hstr on CentOS 8.

What is `hstr`

A command line utility that brings improved shell command completion from the history. It aims to make completion easier and faster than Ctrl-r.

We can use yum or dnf to install hstr on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hstr.

Install hstr on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install hstr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hstr

Install hstr on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install hstr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hstr

How To Uninstall hstr on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the hstr package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove hstr

hstr Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/hh
/usr/bin/hstr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/2313d0d16f10a0c22fbf8a0e8d7fc0e0383a11
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/2313d0d16f10a0c22fbf8a0e8d7fc0e0383a11.1
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/hstr
/usr/share/doc/hstr
/usr/share/doc/hstr/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/hstr/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hstr
/usr/share/licenses/hstr/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/hstr.1.gz

References

hstr website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hstr on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.