Overlay 'apt' with a 'history' arg, as a POC for equivalence to 'yum history'

apt_history

    apt() {
      case "${1}" in
        (history)
          mapfile -t apt_hist < <(zgrep -A 1 "^Start-Date" /var/log/apt/history.log* | grep -v -- "^--$")
          left_col_width="$(( "${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)}" - 30 ))"
          # The format of this printf invocation needs to be tweaked
          printf -- "| %-${left_col_width}s | %s\\n" "Command line" "Date and time"
          printf -- '%*s\n' "${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)}" | tr ' ' "-"
    
          for (( i=0; i<"${#apt_hist[@]}"; i++ )); do
            case "${apt_hist[i]}" in
              (Start*)
                timestamp="${apt_hist[i]}"    
                timestamp="${timestamp/Start-Date: /}"
                (( i++ ))
                commandline="${apt_hist[i]}"
                commandline="${commandline/Commandline: apt /}"
                commandline="${commandline/Commandline: apt-get /}"
                if (( "${#commandline}" > left_col_width )); then
                  count=1
                  while read -r; do
                    if (( count == 1 )); then
                      printf -- "| %-${left_col_width}s | %s\\n" "${REPLY}" "${timestamp}"
                      (( count++ ))
                    else
                      printf -- "| %-${left_col_width}s | %s\\n" "${REPLY}" ""
                    fi
                  done < <(fold -s -w "${left_col_width}" <<< "${commandline}")
                else
                  # The format of this printf invocation needs to be tweaked
                  printf -- "| %-${left_col_width}s | %s\\n" "${commandline}" "${timestamp}"
                fi           
              ;;
              (Commandline*)
                continue
              ;;
            esac
          done
          return 0
        ;;
        (*)
          command apt "${@}"
        ;;
      esac
    }