Zsh Overview

Zsh Overview

四月 13, 2024
Environment
Shell

一、Introduction #

Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.

二、Configuration #

  1. zsh
  2. ohmyzsh, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting

install zsh

# For Fedora
sudo dnf install zsh

# For Ubuntu
apt install zsh

# For macOS
brew install zsh

# For CentOS
sudo yum update && sudo yum -y install zsh

Make it your default shell: chsh -s $(which zsh) or use sudo lchsh $USER if you are on Fedora. Or chsh -s /bin/zsh .

install ohmyzsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

config plugins zsh-autosuggestions plugin

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

zsh-syntax-highlighting

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

config .zshrc

# config theme
ZSH_THEME="afowler"

plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting z)

after configured, exec source .zshrc

more plugins

Reference #

  1. Zsh