Lost shell history

Source: Troubleshooting reference

Zsh history lives at ~/.zsh_history (the conventional default; survives any ~/.local cleanup). Bash history at ~/.bash_history. The bash sidecar command log (richer: timestamps, exit codes, cwd) at ~/.bash_log — search via bash_log_search <pattern>.

If you have history under the old location (~/.local/state/{zsh,bash}/), one-time migrate:

[ -f ~/.local/state/zsh/history  ] && mv ~/.local/state/zsh/history  ~/.zsh_history
[ -f ~/.local/state/bash/history ] && mv ~/.local/state/bash/history ~/.bash_history
[ -f ~/.local/state/bash/log     ] && mv ~/.local/state/bash/log     ~/.bash_log

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