From 1ec8e6689effa0169e435c846957c3248f4f5e85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abubakar Yagoub <Abubakaryagob@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 04:27:16 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] zsh: treat zsh history file as text
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.z-history file is saved as data leading to grep displaying a message about the file being a binary after each command, the `-a` flag makes grep treat binary files as text eliminating the message.

before:

```bash
~
❯ read start_ts <<< "$( grep "^:" "${HISTFILE}" | tail -n1 | cut -d: -f2 )"
grep: /home/blacksuan19/.zsh_history: binary file matches
```

After:

```bash
~
❯ read start_ts <<< "$( grep -a "^:" "${HISTFILE}" | tail -n1 | cut -d: -f2 )"
```
---
 zsh.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/zsh.sh b/zsh.sh
index af7b6f5..7c6f396 100644
--- a/zsh.sh
+++ b/zsh.sh
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function __ash_last_command() {
   [[ "${ASH:-0}" == "0" ]] && __ash_info __ash_last_command && return
 
   local cmd cmd_no start_ts end_ts=$( date +%s )
-  read start_ts <<< "$( grep "^:" "${HISTFILE}" | tail -n1 | cut -d: -f2 )"
+  read start_ts <<< "$( grep -a "^:" "${HISTFILE}" | tail -n1 | cut -d: -f2 )"
   read -r cmd_no cmd <<< "$( builtin history -1 )"
   echo -E ${cmd_no:-0} ${start_ts:-0} ${end_ts:-0} "${cmd:-UNKNOWN}"
 }