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I used zsh and when I run Ctrl-R to search history command, I can only get the command executed in this session, but can't search all the history commands. I know there is a .bash_history file in bash to store all the history commands and we can do this search in bash.

Is there any way to do this in zsh?

shangyin
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Zsh does not save history to a file by default, that's why when changing session your history is removed. You will have to put in your ~/.zshrc file the following:

HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history
HISTSIZE=10000
SAVEHIST=10000
setopt appendhistory
Nahuel
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Just search the history file:

  % egrep <regexp> ~/.zsh_history

or

  % less ~/.zsh_history

and use / command to search

bguiz
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Bearded grasshopper
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Alternatively to Ctrl-R you may write the first characters of the command then press ↑ key to scroll up the command lines history that starts with the written first characters up to the first usage

Eladio
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To search through history in all sessions, you'll need to enable several options. The zshoptions manual page has a History section that lists relevant options.

SHARE_HISTORY is one option which will share history between sessions. With this enabled, you should be able to search (using Ctrl-R or history) through commands run in this and other sessions.

simont
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