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How to fix a corrupt (zsh) history file

Andreas Robecke
July 28, 2015Software engineer
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When you the following error:

zsh: corrupt history file /home/marc/.zsh_history
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You can try and fix your history file by extracting only the valid strings:

cd ~
mv .zsh_history .zsh_history_bad
strings .zsh_history_bad > .zsh_history

fc -R .zsh_history # reloads the history
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Posted by Andreas Robecke to makandra dev (2015-07-28 08:57)
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