How to fix and recover a "corrupt history file" in zsh?
Solution 1:
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
Solution 2:
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)