[SOLVED] Zsh_history not being saved!

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#1

Hi,

I’ve just installed ArchLabs, with i3-gaps+openbox for the wm part and zsh as my main shell.

The problem is: Zsh doesn’t save my command history. I looked for .zsh_history, but didn’t find it, so I created it myself, but nothing happened.

** I haven’t changed any of the defaults except for some new envVars added at the end of .zshrc only!

#2

so when you do !! or up arrow you get nothing?

history is stored in the HISTFILE evnironment variable if set

echo $HISTFILE
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#3

Do you mean it doesn’t get saved at all, or it isn’t saved after reboot?

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#4

I have the same problem on my older laptop (with a fresher AL install) as well. I haven’t figured out how to fix it, but didn’t spend much time on it either.

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#5

How come I haven’t thought about that! Thanks for the hint.
It wasn’t set. That is weird! I suppose the distro makers have forgotten to set it.

I solved it by adding this line export HISTFILE=$HOME/.zsh_history to my ~/.zshrc file

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