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How to use ".zsh" files? [duplicate]
This might be a very silly question, but how to use .zsh files?
For example, here is a gist system-wide-clipboard.zsh
Zsh copy & paste system wide for OS X, like in emacs
I do understand I can ...
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Why not run zsh-newuser-install as root?
My user shell is zsh, but sometimes I need to wander about as root, where my shell customizations (prompts, aliases, etc.) don't come with me. So I thought if I'm going to be adding those all, I might ...
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Source not working the same way for bash as for zsh, cannot forward source commands as expected
I have been using bash at work and zsh at home, different macbooks. I know very little bash or zsh scripting, so I didn't dare do the switch until I managed to get my ZSH on par with what I had at ...
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git: inconsistent behavior when using filter to strip comments
I am using filter to remove comments before committing config files in git:
$ cat .git/config
[filter "stripcomments"]
clean = "stripcomments"
$ cat .git/info/attributes
/etc/* ...
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setopt does not work in .zshrc. Can someone tell me why?
This is what I have in ~/.zshrc (actually a file sourced from my ~/.zshrc, see below).
#CHANGING DIRECTORIES
setopt CD_SILENT
setopt CDABLE_VARS
setopt AUTO_CD
#COMPLETION
setopt recexact autolist ...
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Create parent directories when using shell redirect
In Zsh, the following fails:
$ echo hi > /tmp/this/path/does/not/exist/out.txt
zsh: no such file or directory: /tmp/this/path/does/not/exist/out.txt
Obviously the problem is that > cannot ...
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Set custom shell history file [duplicate]
How to set an alternative path for the zsh history file instead of the default ~/.zsh_history?
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How can I change the location of .xinitrc and .zsh* files
I want to change the location of .xinitrc, .zshrc and .zshenv to ~/.config/x/xinitrc, ~/.config/zsh/zshrc and ~/.config/zsh/zshenv, but without simlinking them.
How can I achieve this? Do I have to ...
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How to run a command every time that I exit a zsh shell (including non-login shells)
I have been trying to run a command to clean up some of my temporary files every time I exit a shell.
I initially thought that this would be the job of .zlogout but it doesn't seem to be executed if I,...
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Recover overwritten .zshrc with still-running zsh
I accidentally overwrote my .zshrc file after a misexecuted command, which contains several hundred lines of configs. However, I still have 5 terminals that had zsh open before this incident, and as a ...
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What are "zsh" commands for cut/copy/paste?
I want to configure zsh and bind its cutting, copying and pasting commands (or maybe they're called widgets idk) to different escape sequences, the ones that my terminal program sends across. Problem ...
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Configuration file for shell script?
Is it possible to define a configuration file for zsh scripts?
I am running macOS 10.15 and the default shell is zsh.
I have defined, i.e., alias abc="echo yes" in ~/.zshrc, ~/.zsh_profile, ~...
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Convert this particular .bash_profile to .zprofile
I have this .bash_profile:
alias ip='ipconfig getifaddr en0'
PS1="\[\e[0;31m\]\$ \[\e[0;32m\]\w\[\e[0m\] : "
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
[ -s ...
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How do configure ZSH commands substition to not use backticks (`)?
I only want echo $(date) to return the date not the backticked version.
echo $(date) # should return Wed Mar 6 09:50:41 EST 2019
echo `date` # should return `date`
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what's the difference between /bin/zsh and /usr/bin/zsh? [duplicate]
I saw the following in /etc/shells -
% cat /etc/shells
# /etc/shells: valid login shells
/bin/sh
/bin/dash
/bin/bash
/bin/rbash
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh
I want to know if there is a difference ...
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