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pratyahava • today at 8:55 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

for viewing all the history files at once this is one of the simplest options

  cat $HOME/zsh/*
should be easy to copy-paste or pipe it to an editor.

i mean, the problem of viewing all history files at once is much easier than writing to the same one file from multiple sessions.

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jasode • today at 9:06 AM

>cat $HOME/zsh/*

It's still inconvenient because the .bash_history and .zsh_history files I was studying were inside of .tar.xz and .zip backup files. I wouldn't want to crack open those archives just to concatenate a hypothetical set of separate history files to single temp files. Instead, the GUI archive browser I used just highlights a single history file and loads it into the editor.