Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.
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Adding a trigger command to autocomplete function in zsh
When you define an alias like alias g=git, the shell will pick it up and run the corresponding autocomplete function. Now, there's a program out there called hub, which is basically a supserset of ...
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Cygwin + zsh: Home and End keys not working
I cannot get Home and End keys to work for zsh under Cygwin. Various sources seem to suggest that
bindkey '\e[1~' beginning-of-line
bindkey '\e[4~' end-of-line
will fix the problem but this does ...
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iTerm2 zsh oh-my-zsh open tab with same directory
Hi i just installed iTerm2 and tried to open a tab with the same directory as the tab that open it.
I tried Zsh: Open a new tab in the same directory answer but still can't get the directory ...
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Per directory shell customisation
Is it possible to source a shell file when entering a directory, and unsource it when I leave?
Ie certain project directories would be really useful to autoload some command aliases, but only in that ...
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In OS X Lion under zsh, how can I set up a /Users/username/tmp directory which deletes after X days?
I'm new to scripting and regular jobs on OS X, so appreciate the help in advance.
I'm looking to have a tmp directory in my homedir, as in /Users/username/tmp which I can use as my "downloads" ...
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How can I do a recursive find and replace from the command line?
Using a shell like bash or zshell, how can I do a recursive 'find and replace'? In other words, I want to replace every occurrence of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in this directory and its ...
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How does the .profile file work if I fork a process?
Lets say I open vlc or gimp on startup, but those commands don't return until the program closes. Does it just let a bash interpreter run indefinitely until they close or does it run and immediately ...
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What happens under the hood when I run a command line program in another programming language?
Some programming languages have system() exec() calls where I can run commands. What exactly happens when I do that? If I run system("ls") Does it run a bash interpreter on the string? Does it make an ...
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How can I filter zsh's completion candidates?
I'm trying to autocomplete an OS X defaults domain. I type:
$ defaults write <TAB>
And I get lot of results, as you might imagine:
com.apple.AOSNotification.Accounts
com.apple.ATS
...
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Better way to read a line of user input in zsh? (e.g. with zle?)
Zsh's read for some reason is echo'ing ^M's instead of accepting them as <Enter> keystrokes. (If -d is set, then they are recognized as <Enter>'s, but still echoed.) It also doesn't ...
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ALT+arrow moving between words in ZSH and iTerm 2
I logged in on one of hosting provider servers and noticed ALT + left and ALT + right moved between words in a shell prompt in a screen.
What kind of key bindings I need to configure and where to get ...
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Vim doesn't load symlinked .vimrc
I've got a symlinked .vimrc:
simont@charmander ~/repositories/config-files [master *]
± $ ls -l ~/.vimrc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 simont admin 6 9 May 17:14 /Users/simont/.vimrc -> .vimrc
However, vim ...
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Tmux + urxvt ghost activity notifications
Im using tmux on urxvt, I have activity monitoring turned on and i noticed that all tmux windows get an activity notification after every 10~15 seconds, when i switch to that window there is nothing. ...
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scp with zsh : no matches found
when I try scp over zsh, I get
scp hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-* user@192.168.1.154:Escritorio/Software/
zsh: no matches found: hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-*
the same command work in bash
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Advanced alias in zsh shell
I'm using the zsh shell on ArchLinux and I want to know if there's an easy way to make "advanced" aliases.
Normal aliases work just fine. However I can't find a way to create an alias for a ...
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oh-my-zsh history completion
I have recently switched to zsh, using robbyrussell's oh-my-zsh. Before that i used bash with a lot of custom stuff and i am only missing one thing because zsh is trying to be 'too smart':
If i type ...
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can I make zsh filename completion work like Vim?
I use setopt menu_complete so that I can hit TAB repeatedly to get different filename completions in zsh. However, I would also like to be able to type:
ls ~/*.txt<TAB>
and then use TAB to ...
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How to echo a command then run it?
How to print a command (echo it), then run it in a single command ?
This is useful when you have some alias/function and wants to print what the command is before running the command.
This would be ...
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per-session zsh prompt
I've just started using tmux. Some workflows I have at the moment work very well with a vertically-split, 1/3rd-2/3rd screen (or 1/4-3/4).
Unfortunately, the zsh prompt I currently have, when I'm ...
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Does a fuzzy matching mode exist for the zsh shell?
I've recently fallen in love with efficient text completion systems. One of my favourite kinds of completion is so-called fuzzy completion.
This is a mode where the program will complete the user's ...
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Git completion with aliases
I have a convenient dotfiles repo on Github for you all to look at, here. FYI, git is installed via Homebrew, as with most of the executables on my system.
My git-completion in zsh works fine when I ...
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zsh completion after installing/removing packages
How does zsh figure out currently installed packages on Debian, and how can I update that information? After running apt-get install, zsh won't autocomplete that package as a possible parameter for ...
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Command history in zsh
Currently I have zsh set up in such a way that command history is shared between all sessions immediately.
Say I have a terminal emulator open with two tabs, each with a zsh session, A1 and A2. If I ...
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How do you make zsh meta-delete behave like bash? (To make it delete a word instead of the entire path.)
Bash's meta-delete will remove one path component instead of the entire path. How do you get zsh to behave like that?
I found this, which seems to work. Is this the right thing to do?
One of the ...
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Recursively count files matching pattern in directory in zsh
How do I recursively count all files of a certain type in zsh?
There are quite a few methods to do this (helpful SuperUser questions such as this one give pointers), but few zsh-specific methods.
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Why does grep return no results (list all files in directory)
I'm trying to count all files in a directory that match a pattern, recursively, using ls:
ls -R | grep *.{cpp,h} | wc
However, I get:
zsh: no matches found: *.cpp
ls -R does return results, ...
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How can I clean up my bashrc/zshrc file?
Over time, I've added bunches of stuff to my PATH and it's lookin' pretty awful. How can I clean this up or what's the proper way to "reformat" all of this?
export PATH="$PATH:~/scripts"
export ...
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Menu tab completion for recent history in zsh
I am interested in a potential zle widget for zsh. Is there a way to build a widget that mimics the kill-completion selectable menu? Essentially I want to be able to press , tab in vi-command-mode, or ...
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how can I invoke the last 3 commands in shell history
Lets say my last 3 commands were:
% rm foo.out
% myprog > foo.out
% cat foo.out
I will like to invoke the last 3 with one stroke of the enter key, i.e. do some shell history commands which ...
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Stopping ZSH from correcting a single command
Every single time I try to use npm in zsh it asks me if I meant nm. It's gotten very annoying now. I like the auto correct feature, though. How can I turn it off for the npm command?
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How can I make Bash (or Zsh) run a particular command before each entered command?
I'd like to configure Bash to run a particular command before running each command line I enter at the prompt. Specifically, I'd like to tell Vim (which is running in another terminal) to write all ...
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how do I correctly negate zsh globbing expressions?
I want to list all files but those ending with owp: Hence I tried:
ls -l *.(^owp)
zsh: unknown sort specifier
ls -l *(^owp)
zsh: unknown sort specifier
ls -l *[^o][^w][^p] # does not work ...
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How do I get searching through my command history working with tmux and zshell?
I use zshell and am trying out tmux.
In shell if I hit control-R, it fires off bck-i-search and I can begin typing to match commands previously entered. When in tmux, control-R appears to do nothing. ...
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How do I get zsh's autocomplete to complete wildcards like bash does?
In zsh and in bash, if I type ls c<TAB> it displays every filename starting with c. If instead I type ls c*<TAB>, bash behaves the same way, but zsh replaces the c* with the list of every ...
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Colors in zshell prompt cause odd behavior
I'm running OSX Lion 10.7.3, zsh version 4.3.11. I've found that if I have color escape codes in my prompt, it royally screws things up. For instance, if I scroll forward through the command history ...
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oh-my-zsh turned on autopushd? How can I turn it off?
It appears that I have autopushd turned on (I know I didn't turn it on) and it is rather annoying because I prefer to pick and choose when to use the directory stack. How can I turn off autopushd?
I ...
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Is there anyway to color `git push` output?
I've tried using:
stderred, https://github.com/sickill/stderred
colors in git, http://scie.nti.st/2007/5/2/colors-in-git
global config color.ui=true.
Though the output from git push on error is ...
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rename file with zmv
I just discovered zmv this morning.
To test it i have created a few files.
test1.txt test2.txt test3.txt
I'm trying to rename them with zmv
I'd like to get this output:
test-1.txt test-2.txt ...
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Piping file to a command that doesn't implement piping
$ cat foo
foo
bar
Now if I do:
$ some_program foo
It's working.
But if I try:
$ cat foo | some_program
It's not working.
I'm looking for a clean way to pipe input to some_program without ...
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1answer
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zsh alias “…”
I have an ZSH alias:
alias -g ...='../..'
alias -g ....='../../..'
When I try to cd ..., things work perfectly. I can't, however, use it in a cp command: cp .../file . fails with cp: .../file: No ...
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Colored man pages but git --help is not in ZSH
I have colored man pages according to:
alias man="TERMINFO=~/.terminfo/ LESS=C TERM=mostlike PAGER=less man"
so
man less
looks like
but git blame --help is uncolored
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ZSH expansion for a timestamp?
My coworker has this nifty key combination he types in when touching a new file that expands out the current timestamp (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS) to where the cursor is, so he can quickly create timestamped ...
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Where can I find my (current shell process') PID?
I'm on OS X using ZSH (have lots of homebrew stuff, too).
I'd like to know the PID of my current terminal.
(I'm learning more about process management on *nix systems, pstree and the like, and so ...
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ZSH with mintty on latest cygwin?
Does anyone know how to set mintty to use zsh on the newest cygwin install?
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Key bindings in zshrc do not take any effect
I have just switched to zsh, and I would like to bind Home, End and Delete keys such that they would act similar to how they do in bash.
I have found some commands that work if I enter them directly ...
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How can zsh be configured to autocomplete directory name with camelcase matching?
Eclipse and Resharper have a nice way of navigating files.
If I have the following folders (or files) in my current directory
MyReallyLongName
MyReallyLongAndFunName
MyReallyLongAndNotReallyFunName
...
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How to search *upwards* for file? (reverse find)
I'd like to search "upwards" for a file in shell script, e.g. check $PWD, then $PWD/.., then $PWD/../.., etc. until hitting the root. Before I go and roll my own, is there some builtin bash/zsh/find ...
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zsh auto-complete event designator
(See my previous question for additional context).
I'm migrating to zsh from bash, and using oh-my-zsh. When my zsh history looks something like the following:
git status
git add -A
git commit
I ...
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Repeat last command matching “two words” zsh
I want to repeat the last command that matches foo bar. Using !! doesn't work (it's not the last command I used), and neither does !foo, because my history looks something like
foo bar dee zep
foo ...
