Or the pure zsh version, which is superior, since it eliminates a ton of forking by eliminating calls to external tools (the original z script relies heavily on awk, sort, date, sed, mv, rm, and chown). There are also significant stability improvements to the database thanks to proper locking.

https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z

Failed twenty ways to Sunday if I set `ZSHZ_DATA="$HOME/.local/share/zsh-z"` . Could not get it to recover from it.