So this was happening because for some reason my XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable was not set (it should be set to ~/.local/share). I can see my old history under ~/.local/share/fish/fish_history. I was able to recover the history by doing "set -U XDG_DATA_HOME "$HOME/.local/share"
HTH, -mandeep On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 2:20 PM Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmmm, never mind, I seem to have magically got my history back! > > When I first tried after my laptop crashed, I wasn't getting anything > in shell history...tried with "up arrow" and also the "history" > command (which listed only 4 prior commands). Somehow when I opened > another shell after a while, all my previous history started showing > again. Almost like it recovered a previous version of it. > > Long live mystical powers of fish-shell! > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 10:03 AM Mandeep Sandhu > <mandeepsandhu....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > I recently had my fish command history completely lost after my laptop > > crashed (damn nvidia graphics!). I'm on ubuntu 22.04 running fish > > 3.6.1. > > > > Looks like the crash happened at a time when fish was updating history > > file (I thought this was an atomic operation and shouldn't cause loss > > of data?). > > > > Is there any way to recover the history? > > > > Any tips appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > -mandeep _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
