VictorQueiroz/How to fix corrupted `.zsh_history`.md

Created March 3, 2025 17:50

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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

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