OK, so this didn't take long to "fix" ...
As an ex-Bash user, I've had an alias setup on all my Unix boxen to allow me to list out my shell's history, without line numbers.
So, therefore, rather than typing: -
history
and seeing line numbers, such as these: -
989 podman version
990 cd
991 hostname
992 ls -al ~/.ssh
993 ls -al ~/.ssh
994 date
995 cat ~/.ssh/readme.txt
990 cd
991 hostname
992 ls -al ~/.ssh
993 ls -al ~/.ssh
994 date
995 cat ~/.ssh/readme.txt
I have an alias setup: -
hist='history | cut -c 8-'
which returns much the same but without line numbers e.g.
hostname
ls -al ~/.ssh
ls -al ~/.ssh
date
cat ~/.ssh/readme.txt
This alias was setup in ~/.bash_profile and is now set up in ~/.zshenv.
However, I'd noticed that hist would only ever return the last 16 commands ...
This was easily solved: -
...
History accepts a range in zsh entries as [first] [last] arguments, so to get them all run history 0.
...
Therefore, I just needed to update my alias: -
alias hist='history 0 | cut -c 8-'
and now I see everything.....