Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
10
votes
3answers
2k views
invoke zsh, having it run a command, and then enter interactive mode instead of exiting
i'd like to start zsh similar to
zsh -c 'my_prog option1 option2'
but instead of exiting after running that command, leaving me at the propt of the invoked zsh (not wherever it is being called ...
24
votes
1answer
16k views
How do i change my default shell from bash to zsh?
I want to change my shell from the default bash shell to zsh on my Amazon EC2 instances. How do I go about doing it? Thanks!
10
votes
2answers
3k views
Resume Zsh-Terminal (OS X Lion)
OS X Lion has "Resume" feature, i. e. when you reopen an app it restores all windows and their contents. That works for Terminal as well. But if you use Zsh instead of Bash it doesn't restore opened ...
11
votes
6answers
3k views
Zsh: Open a new tab in the same directory
Say you are in /very/cool/and/deeply/nested/folder . And you want to open a new terminal tab in the same folder.
How would you do that?
I use Mac OS and Zsh.
5
votes
2answers
446 views
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 ...
9
votes
1answer
644 views
Binding Fn-Delete in zsh on Mac OS X
In zsh, whenever I press Fn+Delete (which is forward delete) a tilde (~) gets inserted. This indicates zsh doesn't have the key bound.
How do I bind it, and make it behave normally (delete in front ...
4
votes
3answers
4k views
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 ...
4
votes
3answers
926 views
Problem with Ctrl-Left/Right bindings in oh-my-zsh
For some reason I am unable to bind Ctrl-Left Arrow and Ctrl-Right Arrow to move between words in ZSH after installing oh-my-zsh on my MacBook Pro.
In iTerm2 I have my keybindings configured to "Send ...
2
votes
1answer
153 views
How do I change my default shell on a remote server?
I tried changing it the way recommended in How do i change my default shell from bash to zsh?, as shown below:
chsh -s $(which zsh)
but that gave me an error. The system asks me to use ypchsh ...
1
vote
2answers
1k views
On OS X, how do I start Cocoa emacs *and* bring it to front?
I wrote a little zsh function to allow me to run emacs from the command-line:
function emacs() {
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $@ &
}
This works perfectly, but it seems to ...
20
votes
6answers
5k views
What zsh features do you use? [closed]
I do a lot of work in the terminal so I have learned a lot about my shell of choice, zsh. What features of zsh do you use to make yourself that much more productive at work? One of my favorites is ...
16
votes
3answers
4k views
Zsh not hitting ~/.profile
I've just installed zsh on my Ubuntu system. It seems zsh isn't executing ~/.profile on init. To my best understanding, this should be an automatic behavior. What am I missing?
19
votes
4answers
5k views
zsh starts incredibly slowly
ZSH takes about a second and a half from creating a new terminal window to being ready. I'm pretty sure that the culprit is compinit.
I haven't been able to find good documentation on compinit, but ...
13
votes
3answers
5k views
How do I customize zsh's vim mode?
Ok, so I finally made the great change. In my .zshenv, I changed my EDITOR:
export EDITOR=vim
There are a couple of questions I have that are so minor that I didn't want to start separate ...
9
votes
2answers
3k views
Tweaking zsh git autocompletion
I just switched from bash to using zsh 4.3.4 on Ubuntu Hardy. I'm developing with git and I find myself constantly fighting with the default git completions: filename completion tries to be smart by ...
9
votes
3answers
3k views
Change iTerm2 window and tab titles in zsh
I want to label the window tabs of terminal sessions. I'm using the zshell in iterm2 on OSX. Is it possible to change the label of a window tab dynamically in the terminal?
10
votes
1answer
3k views
Tmux and ZSH custom prompt : bug with window name
I have customized my ZSH prompt with oh-my-zsh to make it more readable and add information about git if I'm in a repository.
Example :
bob@inf [~/docs] %
bob@inf [~/src/nicest] master % (in a git ...
4
votes
1answer
1k views
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?
7
votes
3answers
2k views
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? ...
7
votes
1answer
2k views
Exceptions to zsh correctall feature?
I am using the correctall option in zsh, and I am generally quite happy with it. There are, however, few situations where I find this feature highly annoying.
For example, lets say I have a file ...
1
vote
2answers
555 views
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 ...
7
votes
1answer
1k views
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 ...
4
votes
2answers
456 views
Strange zsh autocomplete behaviour
Every time I use tab autocompletion with zsh instead of completing the current string, it gives me a new string + options to complete. It's hard to explane, so here is an example. This is what would ...
10
votes
4answers
831 views
How is zsh pronounced?
How is zsh pronounced?
Is it 'Zee - Shell', 'Zed - Shell' or is it said pronounced like it's written 'zsh'?
5
votes
4answers
156 views
How to rename a file inside a folder using a shell command?
I have a file at some/long/path/to/file/myfiel.txt.
I want to rename it to some/long/path/to/file/myfile.txt.
Currently I do it by mv some/long/path/to/file/myfiel.txt ...
2
votes
1answer
285 views
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, ...
4
votes
2answers
411 views
Writing shell scripts that will run on any shell (using multiple shebang lines?)
I've just started getting deeper into shell scripting, and I've always just thrown my script in a file, marked it chmod +x and then done /path/to/script.sh and let whatever interpreter is the default ...
4
votes
3answers
920 views
Get Function Into PS1 (Zsh)?
This works in Bash (parse_git_branch is a defined function)
export PS1="\$(parse_git_branch)"
but I cannot figure out the equivalent in zsh.
Note: If I do
PROMPT="$(parse_git_branch)"
it seems ...
2
votes
1answer
177 views
zsh autocompletion not working on cygwin
I am on win7 64b, with cywgin 1.7.
I have added zsh shell to the installation.
If I start a shell like with bash:
bash --login -i
autocompletion works fine straight away. But if I start a zsh:
...
2
votes
1answer
447 views
using custom command from old .inputrc in zsh?
I used to have this in my .inputrc when I used bash but it doesn't work in ZSH because ZSH doesn't read the .inputrc (AFAIK):
$if Bash
# Meta+O can be made to load the previous
# command and ...
1
vote
1answer
67 views
put in bash or zsh history absolute path to files I working on
I have found that in bash i frequently use something like that:
vim ./somefile1 less
less ./dir1/dir2/somefile2
cp some_other_relative_path_to_file
and so on
After that when I trying to find a ...
1
vote
3answers
129 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
140 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
515 views
How to check what slows down my terminal startup?
Is there a way to check what slows down my terminal startup? I'm using zsh with ohmyzsh on iTerm2.
It takes about 10 second to open a new window :(
This is my zshrc file:
export ...
0
votes
2answers
500 views
^C not working in zsh on Mac OSX
Ctrl-C stopped working for me at the terminal when using zsh (on mac osx).
I didn't notice the exact moment that it happend so I can't be sure what caused it.
I didd't update zsh in a while though. ...
