How to configure terminal command history synchronization between a work laptop and a home PC?

For developers who spend a lot of time in the command line, synchronizing terminal history across multiple devices boosts productivity. Default settings in shells like bash or zsh save history only locally when a session is closed, leaving it isolated on each individual computer.

One popular solution is using specialized utilities such as Atuin, which replaces the standard terminal history search and synchronizes it via an encrypted cloud or a self-hosted server. Another approach involves writing scripts to sync history files using a private Git repository or cloud storage.

If you use cloud storage or Git, you can set up automatic merging of bash_history or zsh_history files when opening the terminal. However, this may cause conflicts if you work on two devices simultaneously.

Once the setup is complete, newly entered commands will be automatically encrypted and sent to storage, and they will become available on your other computer through familiar history search using the up arrow or special hotkeys.