Questions tagged [zsh]
Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
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zsh - how to go back to previous directory?
i just bought a new mac book. in my prevous mac with zsh i was able to do the following command to go back to the previous directory:
zsh: -
in bash this would be : cd -
but now in zsh although ...
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autocd if and only if the path is a collection of `../`
I'm using zsh & I've aliased .. to cd ... I want zsh to cd to a path if and only if the typed out path is a repetition of .. or ../.
The following should auto-cd:
..
../
../../../../
../../..
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zsh (Default PATH?) messed up with mongodb installation
seems to be imposible after hours and hours trying to solve this problem. All my sudo terminal commands are corrupted due to a several path changes, so i ask for help to set the correct environment ...
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Cannot seem to get Neofetch to auto display when opening iTerm2
This question probably has a very obvious answer, but I have yet to figure out what that answer is.
I have Neofetch installed using Brew under macOS Big Sur 11.3. I can run neofetch in iTerm2 and ...
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Why Zsh terminal icons are not getting displayed in Atom Platformio Ide Terminal?
Screenshot of the faulty Atom Platformio Ide Terminal
I'm running Atom on Manjaro Linux. And I installed Platformio Ide Terminal. Everything is working fine, except the Zsh shell icons. None of the ...
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What has caused the CTRL + x + e shortcut to stop working in the shell?
The CTRL+x+e keyboard shortcut allows you to open your favorite editor, as defined in the $EDITOR shell environment variable.
This has stopped working for me recently, but I am not sure what changed.
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How to safely kill bash/zsh/other shells with its history stored?
Shell programs do not react to SIGINT, so kill $(pidof shell) can not kill them. When I use kill -9 $(pidof shell), the shell immediately exited as I expected, but the history in the session is lost.
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How to fix 'You don't have permission to open the application' on Mac?
I get the following error when I try to open the app on the mac.
I tried using the following solutions:
Also here is the behavior when I use the keyboard shortcut:
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How to set the PATH variable with .zshrc
I am trying to compile a program using Intel C and Fortran compilers (icc and ifort) on my Mac (Big Sur 11.2). Both icc and ifort executables are located in /opt/intel/oneapi/compiler/2021.2.0/mac/bin....
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error in zsh with curl?
I want to run a curl command in zsh.
curl -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/<ZONE>" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer &...
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Installing A Framework To My App
I'm using zshell and I am trying to install a react framework called NativeBase. The issue I have is when I try to install the peer dependancies I get the error zsh: command not found: react-native. I ...
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R and shell in macOS Catalina
I just got a new M1 mac with macOS Catalina at my workplace, and I'm having trouble when running R from the command line (actually, when running it from a Makefile). I'm relatively new to the shell so ...
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zsh beeping in Intellij-Idea
When I configure my Intellij (community edition - 2021.1) to use zsh, everytime I type in a command in the terminal there is a beep sound. I already set unsetopt beep in my .zshrc and also ticked off ...
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Schedule zsh scripts so it will remind me something need to be updated?
I'm using MacOSX, and the Terminal.app is now all using zsh as default shell. I use Homebrew to manage all kinds of packages/application installation, while every day I will have to open the terminal ...
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PROMPT variable not changing prompt in Zsh?
The last line in my .zshrc is export PROMPT="foo". I am using this because I heard this is the way to customize a ZSH prompt.
However, inside zsh my prompt does not show up as "foo"...
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How to search case insensitive with find shortcut in linux terminal(ctrl+shift+f)
I am using find shortcut in linux terminal (ctrl+shift+f) quite often. The problem is that it is case sensetive, so searching for example: "syn/ack" is no the same as "SYN/ACK".
I'...
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Git command or zsh plugin for matching files by their stem that supports autocompletion
Staging files for commits can be quite tedious depending on the directory structure they are in.
I am looking for a way to avoid having to type the full path of a file to add it to the index.
Say a ...
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Display tilde (~) instead of home folder name when at home in macOS Terminal (zsh)
How do I have
~ $
instead of
myUsername $
in zsh? My bash displays like the former and I like it because it looks cleaner.
My .bash_profile
export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1
export PS1="\...
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ZSH and globstar to match all files in subdirectories, but not directories
I can do this:
$ grep 'text' foo/* foo/**/*
but the problem with that is that it expands to list all the files AND directories, so I get a bunch of these errors:
grep: foo/a: Is a directory
grep: foo/...
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Add function to ~/.zshrc
I'm trying to apply the following : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58549853/compiling-header-files-for-c-using-vscode-code-runner
But I'm stuck/missdo on the part to copy and paste the function ...
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Terminal Zsh error after just opening terminal on Mac Catalina
I am getting a weird message after just opening the terminal and could not figure out the problem.
Last login: Wed Mar 31 11:10:55 on ttys000
/Users/rakesh/.zprofile:source:1: no such file or ...
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Wrap text using zsh bindkey
I'm trying to make a keyboard shortcut which wraps the current command in the terminal like this:
($current_command && say done) || say error
I've got it partially working with:
# ~/.zshrc
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Copy Folders to Another Folder Based on List of Known Folder Names in OSX Terminal
I need to find folders within a directory that match a known list and copy them to a subfolder.
So far I have found solutions for moving files via a list, but I can't figure out how to do that with ...
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zsh bindkey does not change behavior of up and down arrow keys
I want to change the key bindings of the up and down arrow keys. By default I have:
bindkey
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"^[[A" up-line-or-history
"^[[B" down-line-or-history
...
I have added these lines ...
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Case insensitive terminal completions in macOS Big Sur [duplicate]
I am totally new in MacOS environment and I can't get my terminal completions to work case insensitive.
I've tried almost all google search results for this question, like editing ~/.zshrc, /etc/...
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Updating Cygwin and zsh causes permission problems
I updated my Cygwin installation for the first time after more than one year (running the cygwin setup program), and when I started my interactive zsh login shell, I quickly ran into various problems. ...
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gtk-launch autocomplete is very slow
Am using zsh with zsh-completions on arch linux. Whenever i press tab after gtk-launch it takes very long (3-4 seconds) to load suggestions, even if i type a partial word. What could be the cause for ...
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Why does echo “$USER:staff” throw zsh: bad substitution?
Puzzled because echo "PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin" doesn’t (thought it had something to do with :).
Also, in Bash, both commands work as I expected.
$ echo "PATH=$PATH"
PATH=/usr/...
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Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar library compared to macOS tar?
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I'm compressing ~1.3 GB folders each filled with 1440 JSON files and find that there's a 15-fold difference between using the tar command and Python's built-in tarfile library on macOS or ...
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What is /usr/bin/cd? [duplicate]
On my Mac (still running Mojave), I typed by mistake (because caps lock was on)
CD
into my Z-shell. Not surprisingly, I did not get to my home directory. However, there was no error message either, ...
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Specify cut characters used by Alt+Backspace in urxvt
In gnome-terminal that I used before, alt+backspace deleted paths folder by folder, meaning a/b/c/d would become a/b/c. But in urxvt, it deletes the whole path. I searched through documentation but I ...
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Open new iTerm tab and run 'Hello World'
I have been trying to open a new tab in zsh and run a simple 'Hello world' in a bash script but I cannot seem to get it to work. How can I open a new tab using 'open -a iTerm .' and running echo '...
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How to use Jira plugin for Oh-My-ZSH?
I've been trying to get to jira plugin for Oh-My-ZSH to work, but haven't been able to do so so far.
I filled in the JIRA_URL, JIRA_NAME and set JIRA_RAPID_BOARD to true using the .jira-url file. They ...
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Mercurial not working on Mac OS 11.2
I am trying to compile Firefox on Mac but Mercurial is not working for me on Mac OS 11.2. I have Xcode and python3 installed and I have done
echo "export PATH=\"$(python3 -m site --user-base)...
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How to fix powerline fonts and symobols error in shell?
I've installed Arch about a week ago, and since then I been struggling with the powerline fonts. But after installing the pkg powerline-fonts, I configured the .zshrc file by adding these lines:
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Fuzzy finder script to search file contents while floating (i.e. in dmenu/rofi style)
I've been trying to create a script with the following functionality: I push a button in my window manager -> a fuzzy finder menu in floating mode pops up where I can type a keyword to search the ...
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Why tmux does not respect terminal color settings?
I'm using alacritty terminal emulator and ZSH shell. When I customize my alacritty config so it contains light background and specific color scheme, it works allright. But as soon as I create tmux ...
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Easy way to copy .bashrc from ubuntu to .zshrc on macOS?
Is there a way to easily copy the .bashrc from ubuntu to .zshrc on macOS Big Sur? I just really want to PROMPT with the colors and the colorization and highlighting of directories.
I am guess it this ...
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putty + powerlevel10k - font issue
I'm running ubuntu with zsh and powerlevel10k and that works just fine on the graphical terminal. I don't really use the TTY terminals, and if I do I can manage to make sense of the broken fonts, so ...
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Why does ZSH crash when autocorrecting PYTHONPATH=$(PWD) test to …pwd…?
When I enter
PYTHONPATH=$(PWD) test
into my ZSH it asks me if I want PWD to be autocorrected to pwd. If I don't, it works as expected (does not find PWD). But if I do, my zsh constantly crashes with
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PowerLevel10k and ColorLS symbols are not showing up, How to Fix This
OS version and name: macOS 11.2
Hyper.app version: 3.0.2
I was trying to get ZSH working with Hyper but then when I try to use PowerLevel10k and ColorLS, the icons don’t show up and instead are boxes, ...
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How do I create a file of aliases for zsh like I did for Bash?
I've spent the last few years learning Ubuntu and fallen in love with Bash aliases. I recently got a Macbook Air and I want to use aliases, but MacOS uses zsh by default. I copied my .bash_aliases ...
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“no such file or directory:” - how to remove directory from .zprofile
I recently uninstalled homebrew from my Mac (macOS 11.2) and since then my terminal opens with the following message:
/Users/lukas/.zprofile:6: no such file or directory: /opt/homebrew/bin/brew
I ...
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Global alias in zshrc file
I am using the command line in a MacBookPro terminal, with zsh as the default profile.
I am trying to write a global alias to the zshrc in my home directory file but encounter a strange error.
If I ...
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“brew” command not found after installing Homebrew on an Arm/M1 Mac
I have installed Homebrew using:
$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Why is the brew command not found?
(base) rags@Rageshs-Mac-...
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Migrating from bash to zsh - where are the packages I installed?
I am new to a lot of this, so forgive me if I don't understand this 100%. I have just installed macOS Big Sur, then installed a few tools in my bash terminal (homebrew, nvm, npm + node, yarn, gatsby ...
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Having problems merging two images using ImageMagick, the error says that it can't find the images I'm trying to merge
I've tried looking for answers online, but none of the solutions I've found worked. So far I have tried the following three commands; where a and b are the images I want to merge and c is the combined ...
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Start up shell stuck in /bin/sh how to change it back to zsh default at startup
Whenever I start my cli, it keeps starting up in /bin/sh.
I've searched various different forms and none so far have worked for my issue. I also tried various options like chsh (1) <--- this only ...
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Odd results on base64 operations
I am having weird output on base64 operations. I have something I want to programmatically download, and found that the links contains base64 encoded data ({date}.zip. This is evidenced by the ...
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“No such file or directory: ~/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh” even though file exists
I was trying to transfer my terminal setup (iTerm2, zsh, oh-my-zsh, omz themes) from an old MacBook to a new one.
.zshrc real file is in Dropbox shared between the two laptops, and in each laptop ...
