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zsh can not save history into .zhistory

zsh can not save history. history is blank when open a new terminal.

Manjaro% export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Manjaro% sed -e '/^#/d' .zshrc
export HISTSIZE=10000
export SAVEHIST=10000
export HISTFILE="~/.zhistory"
Manjaro% fc -AI
zsh: locking failed for ~/.zhistory: no such file or directory
Manjaro% ls -alF .zhistory
-rw-r--r-- 1 zhuxiaoxi zhuxiaoxi 0 Aug 19 14:01 .zhistory
Manjaro% history
    1  export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    2  sed -e '/^#/d' .zshrc
    3  fc -AI
    4  ls -alF .zhistory
Manjaro% echo $HISTSIZE $SAVEHIST $HISTFILE
10000 10000 ~/.zhistory
Solution

  • I just solved this problem. Quotes should not be used.

    export HISTFILE=~/.zhistory