How to fix and recover a "corrupt history file" in zsh?
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Track title: CC C Schuberts Piano Sonata No 13 D
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00:00 Question
00:26 Accepted answer (Score 213)
00:52 Answer 2 (Score 30)
01:23 Thank you
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Accepted answer links:
[blog post]: https://web.archive.org/web/201508160738.../
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
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Found a blog post describing a fix that appears to work for me, while restoring my missing history:
mv .zsh_history .zsh_history_bad
strings .zsh_history_bad > .zsh_history
Afterwards, you may want to instruct zsh to re-read the history form the recovered history file
fc -R .zsh_history
ANSWER 2
Score 31
Simply removing random characters may also work:
vim .zsh_historyRemove any strange characters, which would most probably be near the end. (In my case I had a string of
@in the second last line, following a forced shutdown):x(save and exit)