Re: Bug: Losing .zsh_history

[Wesley <opndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/5/22 16:20, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 04:01:01PM -0400, Eric Cook wrote:
>> On 10/5/22 15:55, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>>> Due to some hardware problem with the display adapter my box
>>> sometimes fails to show anything on the screen but just emits some
>>> error beeps while it boots.  Since I cannot log in and stop the
>>> machine without the screen, I can only switch off the power.
>>>
>
> So, I can say with certainty that when this happened I used vim to
> look at the history file in a 80x24 terminal window and that
> showed all "^@"s (i.e. 23 lines * 40 nulls = 920 nulls).  I'm not
> sure whether I looked at any other portion of the file, but
> normally I'd check the last line too.  I definitely didn't check
> what was in between and definitely didn't see anything but nulls.
> (The last line may be identical to the first line.)

This might be interesting to read:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/273869

What are your history options btw?

Cheers,
Wesley

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Wesley Schwengle