Questions tagged [zsh]
Zsh is a shell with many advanced command-line and scripting features.
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zsh parse error: condition expected [duplicate]
getListing () {
if [ "$1" = ""];
then
alcListDir ~/Projects/Haskell/ -f \
| alcSortPath time | tac | xargs -n1 basename
else
alcListDir ~/Projects/Haskell/"$1"/ ...
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Script runs command fine, but fails when trying to save output to variable
I have a shell script with the following contents. I call it with ./script.sh. Echo successfully runs, but not when I try to save its output to a variable. The same is true for all commands I've ...
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arrow keys for line editing during zsh read builtin
I have a little zsh script for prompting the user for some input:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
IFS="$(printf "\n\t")"
printf "${1-query}: " 1>&2
read -r query
echo "${query}"
If I type something at the ...
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Konsole does not run shell specified in /etc/passwd
I've been using Bash for a long time on Fedora with Gnome, and recently switched to Arch Linux, Plasma and ZSH. I set up zsh, file, used chsh -s $(which zsh), and it works. However, every time I run ...
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ZSH (O-M-Z + powerlevel9k) + glyphs + console only (Ubuntu server edition): How to get all 3 working?
So I have installed ZSH + oh-my-zsh + powerlevel9k on my Ubuntu server edition.
While it's working including the colors (I used darkorange background to display current user), I cannot get the glyphs ...
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Inverting an associative array
Let's say I have an associative array in bash,
declare -A hash
hash=(
["foo"]=aa
["bar"]=bb
["baz"]=aa
["quux"]=bb
["wibble"]=cc
["wobble"]=aa
)
where both keys and values ...
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/bin/sh symbolic link not working properly
I am using i3, and by default, it uses sh when starting process with the i3 config exec command. This is fine and dandy, but that means the environmental variables created in my .zshrc do not get ...
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Running a subshell from the middle of the current command
I frequently find my self in this scenario. I'm in the middle of typing a command and I need to check something else before I complete it.
Is there a way to open a subshell of some sort with my ...
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mv : get info from files to be overwritten
Is there any "super" mv command out there which displays files info (size, date, etc.) when a destination file is to be overwritten with a source one ? This is, when moving files around and two files ...
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Ubuntu multiple terminal shell configuration [duplicate]
How to allocate different shell to different terminal emulator?
Ex : for terminator terminal allocate /bin/zsh shell and for gnome-terminal /bin/bash shell.
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Prepending some text to each element of an array
In zsh, with glob expansion we can use the P flag to prepend each match with some text:
$ ls -1
bar
baz
foo
$ print -- *(P:--file:)
--file bar --file baz --file foo
Is there something analogous for ...
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How do configure ZSH commands substition to not use backticks (`)?
I only want echo $(date) to return the date not the backticked version.
echo $(date) # should return Wed Mar 6 09:50:41 EST 2019
echo `date` # should return `date`
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ZSH — Loop files, ignore certain patterns (no ls or find)
I just finished reading an article titled "Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls". I want to loop each file in a directory, and the article states that the following is one of the most basic and ...
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How to move to start of current command in zsh
I'm using vi mode with zsh, but I'm stuck in moving to start of current command when there are multiple lines in it.
With 0, it just moves to the start of current line rather than current command.
...
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zsh: How to get value of variable based on a another variable?
I think a example would best explain what I need
_v1="windows"
_v2_windows="/mnt/d"
_v2_osx="/Volumes/d"
echo $_v2_`echo $_v1`
I want to echo the value of _v2_windows but using _v1 to determine ...
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How do you escape “-” in a command in the Shell (Zsh)? [duplicate]
I am trying to rename a file named "-a" to "a" using the command line (zsh shell). I have tried the following
mv \-a "a"
mv '\-a' "a"
mv "\-a" "a"
but got
mv: illegal option -- a
usage: mv [-f | -...
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Open VIM with zle key binding
I would like to setup a bindkey to launch a fuzzy search across projects, home directories, files etc... and launch some command depending of the choosen file type.
If the file is a regular file, I ...
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What is the difference between “…”, '…', $'…', and $“…” quotes?
Sometimes I see scripts use all of these different ways of quoting some text: "...", '...', $'...', and $"...". Why are there so many different kinds of quote being used?
Do they behave differently ...
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Difference between zsh-history-substring-search and up-line-or-beginning-search
Is there a practical difference between history-substring-search-up and up-line-or-beginning-search? I've tried both out and they effectively seem to do the same thing (besides some highlighting that ...
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“==” logical operator and zsh version 5.7.x (installed using Homebrew)
Been getting errors on my scripts when using this operator. I've some online documentation and double equals should supposedly work. Any ideas?
Zsh reference guide: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/...
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Show possible completions in zsh (possible-completions in bash)
I have recently switched to zsh from bash. Deep in my inputrc, I had "\e[/": possible-completions set. This allowed me to see all completions at a given point, without applying them. This was really ...
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Batch renaming when the destination file need spaces
I need to rename a batch of markdown files with random names based on the title name, and the destination name need to be with spaces (this is a spec). I'm trying this one-liner
for i in *;
do mv $i $...
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Why is opening a file faster than reading variable content?
In a bash script I need various values from /proc/ files. Until now I have dozens of lines grepping the files directly like that:
grep -oP '^MemFree: *\K[0-9]+' /proc/meminfo
In an effort to make ...
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Prompt to reflect sshfs mountpoint?
I use sshfs to remotely mount a remote folder to my local machine, the problem is that I need a way to know that I'm working under remote folder on local machine OR local folder to avoid accidentally ...
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How to use chsh with ldap authentication
How to use zsh as default when starting an ssh session to a remote chef server using LDAP for authentication?
tom@chef:~$ chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh
Password:
chsh: user 'tom' does not exist in /etc/passwd
...
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How to setup a git contrib script with zplug?
I want to add auto-installation of diff-highlight thanks to zsh zplug:
zplug "git/git", as:command, use:"contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight" \
hook-build:"cd contrib/diff-highlight && ...
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Deactivate case sensivity on oh-my-zsh history fzf
How to disable case sensitivity on fzf for history search?
I try export FZF_COMPLETION_OPTS='-i' on my config file without success.
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How to get file path which was selected and make copy in dolphin KDE and paste on zsh?
➜ ~ cat .zshrc | grep xclip
alias c="xclip -selection c"
alias -g v='"$(xclip -selection c -o)"'
➜ ~ v
zsh: 没有那个文件或目录: file:///home/roach/Downloads/pure.png
➜ ~
The Chinese words "没有那个文件或目录" ...
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Personalize colored-man-pages zsh plugin colors
I just installed the colored-man-pages zsh plugin.
It works well, but I have an ugly color output on the bottom message:
What is the proper way to personalize the color of the plugins without ...
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How to get variables expanded in output of jobs command
As you can see in the following output the variable $i in the output of ps aux is expanded to sleep 1, sleep 2, etc.
Is there a way to make zsh do the same? In the jobs output all the commands get the ...
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Split string by space in ZSH
Give this file.txt:
first line
second line
third line
This works in bash:
while IFS=' ' read -a args; do
echo "${args[0]}"
done < file.txt
To produce
first
second
third
That is to say, we ...
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Shortcut to `cd` into the 2nd folder in a directory
CONTEXT
I am in a directory with 3 folders.
After executing ls -1 they are ordered like so:
folder1
folder2
folder3
I want to quickly cd into folder2.
I was able to write a function to quickly cd ...
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Find array length in zsh script
Is there a way to find the length of the array *(files names) in zsh without using a for loop to increment some variable?
I naively tried echo ${#*[@]} but it didn't work. (bash syntax are welcome ...
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Ruby, Rbenv not working because zsh is not sourcing etc profile.d
I switched my shell bash and noticed that zsh shell does not source /etc/profile.d.
As Zsh is at times positioned as a more advanced alternative to bash, should it not by sourcing etc profile? Now ...
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Prevent completion of files for 'make' command in zsh shell
Context
zsh shell,
oh-my-zsh framework,
no special zsh's configuration (same problem with or without zsh-completions): see .zshrc at the end.
Trouble
If a directory contains:
a makefile with ...
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Zsh Prompt Alignment Issues
Below is my zsh prompt configuration. Within Emacs (eterm) and Intellij terminals the display is compromised. Below is a representation of the display.
% |...
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PS1 or PROMPT refusing to change in zsh
I enter in zsh:
% PS1=">>> "
But for some reason, the prompt is still the same:
% echo $PS1
%B%F{red}%(?..%? )%f%b%B%F{blue}%n%f%b@%m %B%40<..<%~%<< %b%#
Same thing with ...
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How to add ~/.zshrc file into git?
I would like to create a backup of the .zshrc file in my ~/ directory and avoid versioning all other items. How to exclude all subdirectories and their content?
For example:
cd ~/subdirectory/ &&...
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Is a .zshenv or .zprofile necessary for a proper/function zshell?
I have an issue where every terminal I open up has the first line:
$home/.zshrc:1: command not found: followed by whatever I have as the first line in my .zshrc file. (See "What changes to a .zshrc ...
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What changes to a .zshrc file could cause every terminal one opens to output: '@home/.zshrc:1: command not found: xyz'?
('xyz' can be as far as I know, anything that is on my first line of .zshrc. Even an empty line as a first line of .zshrc returns the same output upon opening a terminal but ending with whitespace. I ...
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Zsh: lazy load bindkey to a function?
I have a zsh script that loads when start new shell with default is zsh.
func1() {
<..check if in a git repo, if not return..>
<..code here..>
}
zle -N func1
bindkey '\eo' func1
The ...
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ZSH thinks unterminated quote if preceded by exclamation mark (!)
I have zsh 5.3 (through oh-my-zsh), if I run echo --message="foo!", I get unterminated quote prompt on the next line:
$ echo --message="foo!"
dquote>
This doesn' happen in bash.
When I drop the !...
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Ensure builtin command is run under pathological circumstances
Given a hostile environment such as:
for word in builtin command type unfunction declare set unset alias; do
eval "$word(){ echo $word function; }; alias $word='echo $word alias'"
done
Is it ...
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Is there any way to change $? from a zle widget?
I have a widget for mapping ^Z to fg:
function ctrlz() {
[[ $(jobs | wc -l) > 0 ]] && {
zle -I
fg
}
}
However, since widgets can't change $?, the exit status of ...
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Understanding environment variable / shell syntax
I was just following the install instructions for zsh-autosuggestions and I don't understand what part of the following command is doing:
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${...
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Case insensitve tab completion zsh without increasing startup time significantly
So I wanted to get away from oh-my-zsh because it made my shell startup lag noticeably (>0.1s). Indeed, after removing oh-my-zsh the startup time went to 0.02s but now I started adding features ...
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Zsh: manually load completion functions
If I load completion functions at shell startup, but I spawn shell like a madman to work on the same folder.
This is the case when I have multiple completion functions that target repository that ...
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Treat command like another for completion purposes
My zshrc includes the following function to create a directory and then enter it:
function mcd () {
mkdir -p "$*" && cd "$*"
}
The function itself works fine but I get odd behavior with ...
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Remove part of name after regex
I have a number of video files using a naming scheme like
some-words-SxxExx.extension
which is my preference. Unfortunately I have a lot of files in this format
some-words-SxxExx-words-I-want-to-...
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how to pipe to a sourced function in bashrc file?
we all know how to pipe to shell scripts and installed programs like grep,awk ... but what about a sourced function in .bashrc or .zshrc ?
this is a test function :
function fff(){
echo "$@"
}
...
