Zoxide not adding to db.zo unless you run init again about zoxide HOT 8 CLOSED

It might be a good idea to mention PROMPT_COMMAND in the documentation somewhere, as the reason why zoxide should be last. I set that variable in my bash config as well, and until @kringalf mentioned it in his comment, I didn't notice the order.

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I have the same issue on ubuntu 22.04 but running eval "$(zoxide init bash)" again doesn't solve the issue here, the db file only grows if i call zoxide add . in the directory

user@host:~>zoxide --version; fzf --version; alias cd;mkdir /tmp/new_dir;stat --printf="%s\n" ~/.local/share/zoxide/db.zo; cd /tmp/new_dir; cd; stat --printf="%s\n" ~/.local/share/zoxide/db.zo
zoxide 0.9.4
0.46.1 (3c0a630)
alias cd='z'
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It's possible something else is overriding the prompt. Could you try making zoxide init the last line in your shell config?

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Note: This is only usefull for my setup since i wanna use the history command in a non default way. So this might only be helpfull for users that also change the bash environment variable PROMPT_COMMAND on their system
For me, with my history -a addon, it helped setting the PROMPT_COMMAND to:

PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a ; __zoxide_hook;${PROMPT_COMMAND#;}"

Now the db file increases after using cd to a new dir

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eval "$(zoxide init --cmd cd bash)" is the last line in my config file.

I added the line @kringalf mentioned but I'm still having no luck.

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@aidandeli what's the output of echo "$PROMPT_COMMAND"? It should contain __zoxide_hook, otherwise something is overriding your prompt.

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Ah yeah, the output was just echo

Adding export PROMPT_COMMAND="__zoxide_hook;echo" after zoxide init in my config file fixed it.

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Ah yeah, the output was just echo

That typically means something is running after zoxide init and overriding your PROMPT_COMMAND. You can use set -x in your .bashrc to debug this.

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