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title: I recently corrupted my zsh history and was… author: rhnvrm type: post date: 2016-11-25T18:35:39+00:00 url: blog/2016/11/25/i-recently-corrupted-my-zsh-history-and-was/ categories:

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I recently corrupted my zsh history and was facing this error.

After a reboot, I started seeing a message when loading the shell:

zsh: corrupt history file /home/myusername/.zsh_history

I fixed it using:

mv .zsh_history .zsh_history_bad

strings .zsh_history_bad > .zsh_history

fc -R .zsh_history