How does one locate a .zshrc file?

Question

I used Homebrew to install Z shell (zsh) 5.0.7 on my Mac.

For the life of me, .zshrc is nowhere to be found. It is not in ~. Is is not in /etc or /etc/zshrc as they suggest here: http://zshwiki.org/home/config/files

Am I supposed to create it myself?

Yelp

no ide about mac. maybe there's a skeleton version in /etc/skel or something, but generally the ~/.zshrc is just to override defauls compiled into the shell or set at the system level. if you don't have one, it's not the end of the world - create one and start writing. – Finer

Answer 1

Sure. If it's not there already, create it yourself.

$ touch ~/.zshrc

Libriform

Thanks a lot. I lost way too much time on that ! – Yelp

You can just search on the web for "sample .zshrc" instead of writing your own from the scratch. – Shears

Where i should touch it? – Preparedness

Answer 2

You can run the helper script zsh-newuser-install from the prompt, and it will walk you through the process to create an initial .zshrc in your home directory.

Singley

Answer 3

As kyranjamie mentioned, you can create it using following command

$ touch ~/.zshrc

Example content of .zshrc file:

PATH=$PATH:/your_path_goes_here

Seadon

Answer 4

In order to find any file on a Unix-based system, you can try the command:

$ locate filename

It should list all the paths where the corresponding file exists.

Instrumentalism

Answer 5

In Unix based systems, touch command followed by name will create an empty file in the present directory.

the modification and access time of each file is also updated with the use of touch command.

In your case, to create .zshrc file, you can use the touch command as :

$ touch ~/.zshrc

Contemporary

This comment does not add anything new on top of all the other touch FILE answers. – Dragonet