Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.
Questions tagged [zsh]
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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?
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Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar library compared to macOS tar?
Context
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 Raspbian 10 (Buster)
Minimal working example
This…
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How can I make tmux use my default shell?
On a new setup, tmux is using bash instead of my default (zsh).
How can I force it to use zsh?
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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 subdirectories.
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How to fix and recover a "corrupt history file" in zsh?
After a reboot, I started seeing a message when loading the shell:
zsh: corrupt history file /home/myusername/.zsh_history
How can I recover from this situation and potentially recover some of the history?
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Where is the .zshrc file on Mac?
I’m using iTerm and wanted to customize the look of my terminal window using Oh My ZSH!. And according to the documentation I need to change the ~/.zshrc file and add a ZSH_THEME value:
Once you find a theme that you want to use, you will need to…
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ZSH - output whole history?
I recently switched from bash to zsh. In bash, one way (besides recursive search) that I used to find previously-run commands was history | grep whatever, where whatever is the bit of command I remember.
In zsh, this isn't working. history returns…
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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 it looks like it should be caching all of the…
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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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What exactly is <() in bash (and =() in zsh)?
I'm pretty comfortable with bash, but recently I ended up in a substitution I didn't know.
What exactly is <(command) in bash?
How does it compare to the =(command) in zsh?
I understand that this has something to do with default file descriptors. In…
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iTerm/zsh not reading .bashrc OR .bash_profile
In ~/.bash_profile
I have :
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
In ~/.bashrc I have some aliases
When I load a new iTerm window, my aliases do not work. If I source ~/.bashrc they work. If I source ~.bash_profile they work.
Isn't at…
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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?
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zsh (z shell) numpad/numlock doesn't work
I just upgraded to zsh/oh-my-zsh. Almost immediately I notice on my machine that the 10-digit numpad is not working. It was working in bash and fish shell.
Oddly, if I hold down the fn/function key it acts like numlock and works, but it doesn't…
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ZSH: Read command fails within bash function "read:1: -p: no coprocess"
Edit:
Seems to work within bash. It appears the problem is related to zsh. If there is a better site to post this issue on let me know.
I am writing a simple script that creates a series of directories. I want the user to give a confirmation…
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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 git commit and then ↑ zsh goes through all recent…
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