How can I change the location of `.zsh_sessions` directory

Question

The ZSH sessions directory gets created in $HOME/.zsh_sessions. How can I change this directory's location ?

Haven't found anything searching on Google and DuckDuckGo.

Answer 1

You will need to change the location in /etc/zshrc_Apple_Terminal. From that file:

# Set up the session directory/file.
SHELL_SESSION_DIR="${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_sessions"
SHELL_SESSION_FILE="$SHELL_SESSION_DIR/$TERM_SESSION_ID.session" 
mkdir -m 700 -p "$SHELL_SESSION_DIR"

Note that the script tries to use $ZDOTDIR as the location and $HOME if $ZDOTDIR is not defined. Change the location of the directory to where you want it to be.

• gidds: Also note that that file seems to get overwritten with every macOS update, so you'll need to re-edit it each time. (After every update, I get Terminal errors in every new window until I fix the line in that file which assumes you have $INSIDE_EMACS set...)
• Marc Wilson: I disabled session support in bash and zsh years ago.