zsh Questions

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Recently I want to try Z shell in Mac. But I'd like to continue also saving the command history to ~/.persistent_history, which was what I did in Bash (ref). However, the script in the ref link do...
Gilder asked 15/5, 2015 at 0:55

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I'm surprised hasn't been asked before, but… What is the difference between alias ⇢ alias EXPORT='alias' function ⇢ function exporter() { echo $EXPORT } and export ⇢ export ALIAS='export' a...
Imperialism asked 19/4, 2014 at 17:8

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I use the following prompt in .zshrc: PROMPT="%{$fg[magenta]%}%n%{$reset_color%}@%{$fg[blue]%}%m %{$fg[yellow]%}%1~ %{$reset_color%}%# " When I open terminal I see this prompt: zoltan@zoltan-Ma...
Sudor asked 12/5, 2015 at 18:44

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I updated my shell to zsh and when I type flutter --version I get this: '''xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/C...
Adiaphorous asked 22/10, 2020 at 19:41

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I'm using the answer given here: How do zsh ansi colour codes work? to format and add color to my zsh prompt. Is there any way to format the prompt based on some conditions? For example, if...
Transit asked 6/11, 2013 at 19:1

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When I say 'git checkout ' I want zsh to autocomplete names of my git branches. Is that possible?
Headrace asked 22/4, 2010 at 20:32

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I am trying to get git autocomplete working with zsh and am running into a weird error (even though the autocomplete appears to complete successfully): Installation: mkdir -p ~/.zsh cd ~/.zsh curl ...
Copycat asked 20/5, 2021 at 16:58

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By searching the solution to disable shadows in MacOS, I found an answer defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true But it does not work in the latest MacOS - Big Sur How do I...
Marita asked 14/1, 2021 at 14:25

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Any variable that I declare in my zshrc is available in the shell as an environment variable. I don't want this to happen. I tried putting the variables in a function and setting them as local, bu...
Demure asked 2/12, 2012 at 7:25

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I've successfully created and logged into a GCE VM with ssh -i ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine <EXTERNAL IP>. The VM is running ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I've installed zsh. I've verified that the out...
Umpire asked 11/10, 2018 at 20:34

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Using zsh, I'm trying to put a step in my ~/.zprofile where I interactively ask a yes/no style question. At first I tried this bash-style approach, but I saw errors of this form: read: -p: no copr...
Hagen asked 2/3, 2013 at 11:51

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It took me a while to figure out how to do this, so posting in case anyone else is looking for the same.
Damn asked 28/6, 2013 at 10:52

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The docker command has a ps sub-command that emits very long lines: $ docker ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 6e8ec8a16da4 waisbrot/wait:latest "/wait" 4 minutes ago Exi...
Pneumatology asked 12/1, 2016 at 16:22

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The whole issue is discussed here and here. Since no one involved in those discussions was 100% sure about the issue, I'm asking for help here. (For the sake of completeness, I'll start from the be...
Coyne asked 17/4, 2021 at 9:39

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iterm2 ohmyzsh In 'zsh' I can't use 'z' to search folders, appears command not found: z I try to run source "$(brew --prefix)/etc/profile.d/z.sh" and source /usr/local/etc/profile.d/z.sh bu...
Frondescence asked 14/2, 2019 at 20:21

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If you look at the VS Code terminal - its too tiny. Here're the user settings that I have modified to create this result. I have searched how to change terminal fonts at VS Code, but I have followe...
Habitation asked 4/3, 2018 at 14:32

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I have seen this post: how-can-i-copy-the-output-of-a-command-directly-into-my-clipboard I have got this alias # Redoes the last command and copies the output to clipboard alias cl="fc -e -|pbc...
Mutz asked 22/1, 2016 at 10:58

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I was told that in ZSH you could do something like command and then when you hit up it would filter the history based on the given command. But when I try this it just cycles the history like bash ...
Coleoptile asked 26/12, 2012 at 12:6

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I'm using Ubuntu on WSL2, having installed powerlevel10k on oh-my-zsh. What is that weird question-mark-number next to the git branch name, what does it mean?
Memorize asked 9/3, 2021 at 4:41

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I just installed oh-my-zsh and copied all my user-defined variables and other tid-bits(conda, SDKMAN) to from .bashrc to .zshrc. I have the Cascadia Code Mono PL font installed on Windows, and Wind...
Ageold asked 8/3, 2021 at 6:55

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I'm going nuts trying to understand what is the problem with this simple example (zsh or bash): echo -n "6842" | printf "%'d" The output is 0... why though? I'd like the ...
Flavone asked 28/2, 2021 at 20:14

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Recently I decided to move from zsh to bash shell. Is there a way to quickly convert my .zsh_history file to .bash_history file? .zsh_history snippet : 1446994188:0;cat .bash_profile : 1446994197...
Blackbeard asked 11/11, 2015 at 9:53

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I'm a huge vim lover, but I can't find a way to get vim to follow symlinks when opening files. As an example, all the dotfiles in my home dirs are symlinked to within the .zprezto directory: .vim...
Homeric asked 11/6, 2015 at 21:22

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After installing cheat (command cheat sheets from the command line), I tried to enable the autocompletion using the provided zsh script. However, I don't seem to find the correct location for the s...
Embus asked 13/8, 2014 at 15:53

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I am having a very hard time getting the npm command to work, and unfortunately my knowledge of unix isn't good enough to solve this on my own. All I've done is brew install node, and I get the fol...
Metcalfe asked 23/9, 2015 at 21:11

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