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OS X setting environment variables
I have OSX 10.8.2 with ZSH as my shell and iTerm as a terminal (don't know if the last thing is relevant). I have to mention that I'm relatively new to OSX.
I'm trying to set up some environment ...
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zsh completion: getting file names from a specific directory
OK, a little background: I use a Mac, and I do as much as possible in the CLI.
In particular, I frequently pop in a USB stick, cp or mv a file over, and then immediately wish to eject (unmount and ...
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Weird autocomplete behaviour in ZSH / oh-my-zsh for directories that don't exist
UPDATE 3 I've worked out that these annoying autocomplete options are actually usernames. I.e. they exist in /etc/passwd I have users such as _kadmin_admin and _kadmin_changepw and many others ...
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What happened to ~ when updating oh-my-zsh?
Not sure what changed the meaning of the home path ~ in my zsh.
So when I do cd ~ , I dont cd into my home but it gives me an error that /Users/carlos does not exist.
How can I reset ~ to refer to ...
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Stop tab completion suggesting 'messagebus'
I've got a directory called build, which I cd into quite a bit.
If there isn't any directory bu* in the current directory, zsh tab completion: cd buTAB suggests messagebus/, which isn't in .. If I ...
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Zsh: Automatically modify executed command
I've recently installed grc (generic colorizer) to my system via MacPorts, giving me the ability to get colorized output for plenty of commands which by default don't support it (see screenshot ...
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Spaces as line breaks from inline for loop command
Someone care to enlighten me as to why the spaces in the first command seem to be interpreted as line breaks? Also occurs substituting print for echo.
$for l in $( find *.txt -exec head -1 {} \; ); ...
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in zsh, how do I hide the backslashes in the completion menu
On Mac OS X 10.6, zsh. I have set in .zshrc:
setopt automenu
…to get a completion menu below the prompt. When I type:
cd <TAB>
I see a completion menu with all directories that have spaces ...
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ZSH to auto-complete directories in command-line arguments?
Transferred from regular StackOverflow...
I'm a new ZSH convert on OSX (git status in the prompt was my main driver to make the leap). Everything seems to be working swimmingly but I'm missing ...
