From 2394cfdd863ffe390f36192a8b4487dd3c15a904 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viktor Varland <varl@vlv.io>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 15:49:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: handle newlines

---
 README.md | 4 +++-
 search.sh | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e4079db..12742b6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ histcmd_dir="$HOME/dev/vlv/shell-history"
 
 _add_history() {
     if test "$(id -u)" -ne 0; then
-        echo "$(date --utc --iso-8601=seconds) $(hostname) $(pwd) $(fc -ln -1)" >> $histdb_dir/zsh-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log;
+        local cmd=$(fc -ln -1)
+        cmd=${cmd//$'\n'/\\n}
+        echo "$(date --utc --iso-8601=seconds) $(hostname) $(pwd) $cmd" >> $histdb_dir/zsh-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log;
     fi
 }
 add-zsh-hook precmd _add_history
diff --git a/search.sh b/search.sh
index f479c17..ba0b520 100755
--- a/search.sh
+++ b/search.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ if [[ -d "$histdb" ]]; then
     )"
 
     entry_cmd="$(<<<$entry awk -F' ' '{ print substr($0, index($0, $4)) }')"
+    entry_cmd="${entry_cmd//\\n/$'\n'}"  # unescape newlines
 
     if [[ "$entry" ]]; then
         eval $copy_cmd <<< "$entry_cmd" >/dev/null