Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.
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How to 'source' a shell script using bash from zsh?
I am using zsh and like it very much, but work a lot with Android source which has compilation scripts that require bash to be evaluated correctly. These scripts need to be sourced prior to ...
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change default shell from zsh to bash
I'm trying to change my default shell in RHEL5 from zsh to bash.
I tried to the methods mentioned in this thead. By typing sudo /usr/bin/chsh -s /bin/bash, the system says sudo: /usr/bin/chsh: ...
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How can I stop zsh from autocorrecting on proper commands?
I'm having a very strange issue with an install of zsh on my local machine. It attempts to correct commands I've typed very aggressively.
Here are two examples.
If I type which ssh it will ask me if ...
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How to reclaim ^S in zsh?
I've found ^S mapped to be the fwd-search key for zsh (ohmyzsh) but I would like to use it in vim for various mappings as well - it seems like the zsh mapping is preventing me from using it now.
Any ...
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How can I make zshell skip confirming substitutions?
If I run the following commands in bash:
mkdir foo
cd !$
The second command will be interpreted as cd foo and executed.
In zshell (at least with my current configuration), it will make the ...
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Show PID of process just launched in ZSH
Can I show the PID of a process that I just launched, ideally at the end of the line of the command?
Example:
root in ~: mysqld .................. [PID 34567]
12121 mysql-logs start to come in...
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How can I put a newline in my zsh prompt without causing terminal redraw issues?
I'm trying to fix a minor (but annoying) issue with my zsh prompt. The problem I'm seeing is that when I'm using a terminal in a GUI OS environment (for example, Terminal.app or iTerm 2 on OS X ...
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XCode Command-T-style autocomplete for zsh
I've just started using the Command-T plugin for vim, and it rocks. In case you haven't heard of it, it allows you to type something like this:
Sb
to select Something.hs-boot from the list
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Zsh, directory tab-completion with prefix
I have a directory where I put all my projects in, let's say it's ~/projects as an example. I've made a command called s which takes one argument, and moves me into that directory. E.g.: s foo moves ...
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How to let shell return to the previous line after exiting a full-screen process like Vim
I connect to Z-Shell on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 machine via Putty. After I exit a full-screen process, eg Vim and less, in Unix shell, the shell prompt starts at the last line of the screen. ...
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Record all commands
I am learning ruby and following tutorials in a book. I want to record all the commands i enter in shell( I am using zsh) . How can I do that? I should be able to stop and start recording.
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zsh completion for “git log”
When I type:
git log p<tab>
In Bash it expands it to git log production/master (if there's only one branch at existing production remote).
How can I have zsh behave like that?
EDIT:
This ...
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history-search-backward working differently in zsh than in bash
I have history-search-backward mapped as PageUp.
When I type:
git push <PageUp><PageUp><PageUp>
in Bash it begins to cycle through all history entries beginning with git push
in ...
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Custom Commands in ZSH
I'm fairly new to zsh, or bash for that matter.
I wish to set up custom commands, i.e. type desktop to bring me to my desktop. I have heard that if I edit my .bash_profile file with the following ...
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How to get ZSH previous command's history number in prompt?
I'm wanting to add the previous command's history number to my prompt, as well as the exit code.
At present,
%h[%?]
Gives me the current history number, as well as the last exit code. What I'd ...
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How can I do Ctrl-Z and bg in one keypress to make process continue in background?
So I realized I follow this pattern of suspending the task and then letting it to continue too often with the Ctrl-Z bg sequence, I was wondering is there any way to compress that to single keypress? ...
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Per-directory bash/zsh history log files
I find I do a lot of work on a project in a set directory. Sometimes - a few months down the track, I need to redo something on that project but I can't remember what the hell I did. I use mercurial ...
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How do I invert the exit code of a program or pipe within ZSH?
I want to invert the exit code of a piped command sequence: foo | bar within the ZSH. So 0 maps to 1 and 1-128 maps to 0.
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How to prevent scripts from changing the terminal's window title?
I'm using GNOME Terminal and zsh on Ubuntu with Awesome WM.
I need to launch a terminal window with a certain title set like "s1" and no script inside that terminal should change the title of the tab ...
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Open a new tab in the same dir as the previous
Im using zsh and it seems that a new tab should open in the same dir as the previous. However, that is not happening.
Do I have to add anything to the .zshrc?
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Messy output in zsh working in emacs M-x shell
I have changed my shell to oh-my-zsh, which is working great in iTerm.
However when I open up my Emacs, M-x shell, I see it also changes to zsh, but the output from executing commands is messy:
➜ ...
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How do i make Zsh cd completion list all files?
I want Zsh to display all files when using tab completion after cd.
Right now tab completion after cd only display directories. I want to see all the files.
Basically i want it to work the exact ...
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I run zsh from bash after connecting SSH – how can I exit both with only one command?
I run zsh on my server and I want to alias the exit command, because whenever I try to terminate my SSH session I must exit from zsh and exit from bash.
I tried alias exit='exit;exit' to no avail.
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Alter bash tab completion to make it more like zsh
I'm on a Mac and the cp and mv commands are killing me due to them copying the contents of a directory if a trailing slash is present. It has bitten me more than once when I use tab completion to ...
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zsh completion will not work in emacs shell
I'm learning about the more powerful tab-completion and expansion capabilities of zsh, and they don't seem to work when I run zsh under emacs with M-x shell:
cat $PATH<TAB> expands the tab ...
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zsh: Autocomplete ambigously only on second tab press
Currently, when I hit TAB, and there's more than one option to autocomplete, zsh will show all of them. If I hit TAB a second time, it will pick the first.
I'd like to change this to:
First TAB: ...
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man: command not found in zsh (Mac OS 10.58)
I changed to zsh from the default (by changing the "Shells open with" preference in Terminal to "command (complete path)" set to /bin/zsh
While most things seem to work, I tried to see the man page ...
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zsh right-justify in ps1
I'd like a multi-line zsh prompt with a right alined part, that will look something like this:
2.nate@host:/current/dir 16:00
->
I know about ...
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How do I use zsh's zle_highlight to highlight only “|”?
I am currently using zle_highlight in zsh to highlight the entire command line. However, I also hope I could highlight "|" using a different more discerning style.
After googling for a while, I ...
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zsh handlers like command_not_found_handler()
I'd like to format the zsh output.
eg for unfound functions I now have:
function command_not_found_handler(){echo $fg[red]"\033[4m???\033[0m"$fg[red]" Command \"$1\" not found."}
which returns red ...
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Is there a way to tell the shell (zsh preferably) about a command?
I defined an alias:
alias school="cd ~/School/3BaFys/"
to quickly go to the folder 3BaFys which contains all of the directories I need this year.
Is there a way to tell zsh that when I do:
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How to prevent a command in the zshell from being saved into history?
In Bash I know putting a space before a command prevents it from being kept in the history, what is the equivalent for the zshell?
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How to switch comfortably to vi command mode on the zsh command line?
In vi, I have mapped 'jj' to escape to be able to switch to command mode without using the annoying escape key. Now I want to have the same for command line editing for which I use vi-mode. I already ...
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Zsh's yank-pop is not working
In bash, you can kill words (Alt-Backspace) or lines (Ctrl-k), and yank them back later with C-y, and cycling the kill-ring with Alt-y.
Now when I'm using zsh, it is weird that Alt-y is not working ...
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How to bind command key in zsh?
It is possible to bind Command Key from mac os x in zsh? I can't find any information about that.
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Is it possible to use different zsh menu selection behaviour for different commands?
I'm using the menu select behaviour in zsh, which invokes a menu below the cursor where you can see the various possibilities. The .zshrc option i have set for this is:
zstyle ':completion:*' menu ...
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Copy files from m3u to destination
I have a playlist, m3u extended, formated like:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:213,2 Tåst - (foo bar)
/home/www/Music/Test/test 123 - test.mp3
My problem is, that it seems the line-break is encoded as '\n\r' ...
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Disable users from completing after a ~ in zsh
I like to use zsh's named directories feature to move about my file system quickly (e.g. so I can use ~src to switch to my source code directory).
I also like zsh's auto-completion features.
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Git: Good Practice for git remote update
I am working with other people on a project and would like to be notified in a timely manner if there is something to pull from GitHub (perhaps also other participants directly).
I was thinking about ...
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When I open zsh, some weird characters display as my prompt (oh-my-zsh on OSX)
I installed oh-my-zsh and now every time I open the terminal some characters display instead of the prompt. However, when I start typing something, the prompt shows correctly:
Last login: Wed Oct 5 ...
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How can I selectively disable zsh's version control integration when my CWD is on a remote filesystem?
I'm running zsh on OSX and on occasion I have to work on a mounted sshfs volume. However, git is REALLY slow over sshfs mounts. My prompt makes use of the vc mode stuff that zsh provides built in, but ...
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how to start an interactive shell with special setup
I want to start an interactive zsh (on cygwin) with project specific set-up:
source /etc/profile
source ~/.profile
source $PROJECT_HOME/Setup.zsh
become interactive
I got as far a step 3 but then ...
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bash wildcard completion
Is it possible to make bash expand wildcards on tab completion in the same style as zsh?
So imagine the following:
mkdir new
touch new/1.txt new/2.txt new/3.log
Now,
ls new/*.txt<TAB>
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Get “zsh-git-prompt” plugin working in my ubuntu zsh terminal
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 with zsh (ohmyzsh) and cant get this plugin working.
https://github.com/olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt
I did all the steps but
unfortunately I receive this error msg when I ...
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Can I use Vim editing mode on the command line without losing recursive history search?
I'm uzing zsh and, because I'm an avid Vim user, I just switched to using Vim-style editing on the command line. (That means if I type ls foo/bar and decide I want to cd instead, I can hit Esc ^ to ...
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How to set dynamic ssh output to zsh variable?
I would like to set a variable to the output of a ssh command in zsh. The ssh command itself connects to a first server, then ssh again from this server to a second server where I want to execute my ...
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Issue with ./configure not being found
I recently upgraded to OSX Lion, and I have been clearing a lot of thing out in my dev environment that is not being used anymore.
My ./configure has seem to have disappeared, and I have made sure ...
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Where is my zsh getting its git completion settings?
My zsh does git completion, but I did not configure this myself. How can I figure out where these settings are coming from?
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zsh not load zshrc?
Whenever I run zsh in OS X it doesn't load my color preferences, I have to manually source my ~/.zshrc to get it to work.
I use oh my zsh, if it matters.
EDIT:
I added a alias
alias ls='ls ...
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Access Finder's “Open With” menu from the commandline (for tab completion)
On Mac OS X, I know one can open a file from the commandline with its default application with open, and with other applications with open -a <application name>. Thus,
open movie.avi
open -a ...
