How to fix and recover a “corrupt history file” in zsh

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# move to home directory
cd ~

# move the .zsh_history file into another .zsh_history_bad file
mv .zsh_history .zsh_history_bad

# write all printable strings into a new .zsh_history file
strings .zsh_history_bad > .zsh_history

# reload the history
fc -R .zsh_history

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@Arios509

Thanks, but i wonder how does this happened? Does anyone know why?

Typically you didn't shut down your computer correctly. Another way you can fix this is just opening your zsh history file in a text editor and removing the corrupted parts. Corrupted parts usually look like this
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