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Import ZSH history to Fish
'use strict';
const fs = require('fs');
const expandHomeDir = require('expand-home-dir');
const zshHistoryRaw = fs.readFileSync(expandHomeDir('~/.zsh_history'), 'utf8');
const zshHistoryLines = zshHistoryRaw.split('\n');
const transformLine = line => {
try {
const semicolonIndex = line.indexOf(';');
const command = line.substring(semicolonIndex + 1);
const when = line.substring(0, semicolonIndex).split(':')[1].trim();
return `- cmd: ${command}\n when: ${when}`;
} catch (e) {
// Probably a continuation of the previous line.
// I don't care about these
}
};
const fishHistory = zshHistoryLines.map(line => transformLine(line)).join('\n');
fs.writeFileSync(expandHomeDir('~/.local/share/fish/fish_history'), fishHistory, 'utf8');
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asus4 commented Feb 6, 2018

The fish_history path changed.
~/.local/share/fish/fish_history for 2.3.0 and later

npm install -D expand-home-dir before run

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