fixing a corrupt zshrc
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This morning I had a machine crash on me and came back to an error.

Date: June 29, 2026

This morning I had a machine crash on me and came back to an error.

WARNING Error
│ zsh: corrupt history file /home/u_walkews/.zsh_history

Dammit I don’t want to redo my shell history, I checked with a clanker and they came up with this solution using strings that only prints printable characters.

```
cp ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.bak
mv ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.corrupt
touch ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
strings ~/.zsh_history.corrupt > ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
```