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Migrate zsh history to fish
import os
import re
def zsh_to_fish(cmd):
return (cmd.replace('&&', '; and ')
.replace('||', '; or '))
def is_valid_fish(cmd):
for reg in r'^\S+=', r'\$\(', r'\[ ', r'`', r'\\$':
if re.match(reg, cmd):
return False
return True
with open(os.path.expanduser('~/.local/share/fish/fish_history'), 'a') as o:
with open(os.path.expanduser('~/.zsh_history')) as f:
for line in f:
line = line.strip()
if line and re.match('^:\s+\d+:\d;', line):
meta, command = line.split(';', 1)
command = zsh_to_fish(command)
if is_valid_fish(command):
time = meta.split(':')[1].strip()
print('Add', command)
o.write('- cmd: %s\n when: %s\n' % (command, time))
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grzkv commented Jul 8, 2020

@depau Had the same. Fix works. Thanks.

@jose1711
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👍

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amordo commented Dec 5, 2022

@depau +1, ty!

@VasiliyMooduckovich
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not so great
Traceback (most recent call last): File "zsh_to_fish.py", line 19, in <module> for line in f: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 2329: invalid start byte

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