Questions tagged [zsh]
Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
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zsh on MacOS catalina 10.15.17
I'm having a little trouble putting this all together...
I want to make a simple shell script to organize and sort around 60 GB worth of music and movie files that are spread out over 3 or for 4 ...
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Configure zsh syntax highlighting for bash-my-aws
I have been using zsh syntax highlighter from this repo and it has been very great so far. Now, I discovered a repo called bash-my-aws which aliases my awscli commands to a more usable and compact ...
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How to change folder separator and ~ character in p10k command line
In powerlevel10k (zsh) the path to branch separator can be a triangle or semicircle (bottom in image); in powerline (top of image), the "triangles" can separate also folder/subfolder instead ...
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Source multiple files in background/parallel (ZSH)
For various reasons I would like to be able to source a series of files in background and wait for them all to finish:
source ./my_file_1.sh &
source ./my_file_2.sh &
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# etc
wait
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gnome-terminal does not display UTF-8 characters correctly (zsh)
I installed zsh v5.8.1 on Ubuntu 22.04.3. And my gnome-terminal looks like so:
the symboles do not seem to be right. Whats wrong?
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Correct way to end ssh tunnel
I frequently need to connect to a database instance on AWS, so I use an SSH tunnel. I can create one with the following command:
ssh -N -L 12345:some-database.rds.amazonaws.com:5432 admin@bastion....
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How to `zcompile` global (system-wide) zsh scripts?
For my local dotfiles I have this snippet at the end of my .zshrc:
for f in ~/.zshrc ~/.zshenv ; do
[ "${f}"(:A) -ot "$f".zwc ] || zcompile "$f"
done
This ensures ...
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Zsh zle function segfaults on `trap 'zle reset-prompt' EXIT`
I have the following function to select a tmux session with fzf:
function tmx {
[ -n "$ZLE_STATE" ] && trap 'zle reset-prompt' EXIT
local tmux item
tmux="$(which ...
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iTerm 2 ZSH font all one color
Related to
iTerm 2 ZSH colors/themes not showed correctly
Machine: macOS Ventura 13.3
My iTerm2 wont use any other colors than all white (and all black in vim) for my fonts. Can anyone see what I'm ...
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Bash read -e -i "Test" needs to be in Zsh
What is zsh equivalent for :
read -e -i "This is pre written text " t
get user into readline with a pre written text ready to edit an save
to a variable ?
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How to get kube-ps1 working in the Warp terminal on MacOSX?
I'm trying to move from iterm2 to warp, but one thing that I can't get working, which is quite crucial for me, is the kube-ps1 project. What it does is to make the current Kubernetes context visible ...
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zsh: stdout and stderr both to console AND log
I'm converting a script from bash to zsh and have been floundering for days with the output. I want the stdout and stderr to both go to both the console and a log file. I've tried everything I can ...
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How to properly set sudo crontab to backup files with superuser rights nightly?
I'm writing a script to backup some dirs such as /etc in a nightly backup.
The script works if I run it manually and input a password, but fails to launch in crontab
For testing purpose I've made a ...
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Trigger a ZSH function when a command calls for sudo password
I quite often run into a situation where a long running system upgrade gets stuck on getting a sudo password, most often because the time for the last input has expired and I simply forgot about the ...
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XDG Base Directory environment variables not respected by notionally compliant software
The goal
I'm running Arch Linux. I want to store all config/data/cache/state files in subdirectories of ~/local, like so:
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├── downloads
├── documents
└── local
├── data
├── state
├── ...
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