Convert your ZSH history to Fish shell

This is a simple shell script to ease the migration from ZSH to Fish shell. It converts the ZSH history to Fish.

This is a shell rewrite of rsalmei/zsh-history-to-fish.

Dependencies

Just zsh, sed and awk.

Installation

If you have git available, you can clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/thenktor/zsh-history-to-fish.git

Without git you can just download the file:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thenktor/zsh-history-to-fish/refs/heads/main/zsh-fish.sh -o zsh-fish.sh
chmod +x zsh-fish.sh

Usage

# ./zsh-fish.sh -h
Usage: ./zsh-fish.sh [-d] [-i <input_file>] [-o <output_file>]
  -d              : dry-run (don't write output file)
  -i <input_file> : path to ZSH history file, default: $HISTFILE or ~/.zhistory
  -o <output_file>: path to Fish history file, default: ~/.local/share/fish/fish_history

Note: Usual file names for the ZSH history file are ~/.zhistory or ~/.zsh_history.