Re: zsh: corrupt history file

[Perette Barella <perette@barella.org>]

I tracked down the export, removing it works.  Must have put that in the 
.zshrc 5 years ago, when I first looked at it, before deciding it was 
broken because the history kept getting corrupt.

Perhaps update the man page for $HISTFILE:

HISTFILE
     The file to save the history in when an interactive shell exits.  If
     unset, the history is not saved.

     Do not export this parameter, as doing so may cause other shells to
     corrupt the history file.

Thanks Roman,

Perette

On 2020-07-29 10:39, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 16:33, Perette Barella <perette@barella.org 
> <mailto:perette@barella.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Research on Google suggests the 'corrupt history file' problem is rare.
>     In my experience, it is not
> 
> 
> Are you perchance exporting HISTFILE? You shouldn’t.
> 
> Roman.
> 

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