Questions tagged [zsh]
Zsh is a shell with many advanced command-line and scripting features.
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Issue when editing multiline commands
I am using zsh 5.0.5 and have oh-my-zsh installed.
When I want to edit a multiline command I noticed the following issue: When I go the parts of the commands in the previous line for editing the ...
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ZSH completion depending on the provided argument
Is there a way to access already provided argument as a variable in a ZSH completion scripts?
here is the example:
#compdef test
_test_comp(){
t=($(cat /tmp/file_with_opts))
_wanted t expl "...
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Why zsh in OS X autocomplete ssh host while there are more hosts in the ssh config?
I have added bunch host names to ~/.ssh/config. And when I want to go to a server I just use tab in order to complete the host like ssh mongo.host.com.
The problem is that I have recently added ...
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Zsh: compare speed of print vs echo
From zsh doc: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/zshguide03.html
I don't find related info that indicate print better over echo, but echo is older than print.
I don't find useful link about speed ...
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Zsh: force file/folder obey new umask
Default zsh shell uses umask 0022, when changing to new umask, e.g: 0077.
Only new file/folders after changing to new umask are applied.
How to use zsh/or-else to force old file/folder create under ...
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Zsh: simple and elegant extract function
There're buch of bash extract functions and one from oh-my-zsh
How to have it in simple and elegant way of extract function?
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How to pass very many options to ImageMagick?
I am using ImageMagick to compose many images.
for counter in {1..$limit}
do
partial=...
x=...
y=...
convert $canvas
$partial -geometry "+$x+$y" -composite
$canvas
done
Basically I ...
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Zsh: add folder to $path recursively
I have ~/bin folder that contains multiple subfolders with arbitrary directory levels.
This folder only for executable files that need to be added to path when start zsh, how to recursively add all ...
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Zsh: source scripts recursively
I have ~/scripts/ folder that contains multiple subfolders with arbitrary directory levels.
This folder only for scripts that need to be sourced when start zsh, how to recursively source all files ...
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Customize ZSH history search in vi mode
I want to replace default history search widget in vi mode with my own (binding it the the default key, i.e. / in command mode).
Here's what I tried putting in my .zshrc:
custom_command() {
...
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Need optimal code for .zshrc to source file after curl
I am having issues with my .zshrc file setting up my zplugin for a first-time run. Its purpose is to fetch the installer from zplug github, run the shell install, then source it.
This is my .zshrc ...
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Zsh: consistent history between machines
Use case: distribute zsh's history between machines in source control.
Is that something that I can achieve with zsh's history -- put history in version control the sync between mahcines? This is to ...
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How can I source a bash script containing BASH_SOURCE from zsh shell?
I have a bash script that looks like this:
...
SOME_VARIABLE=$(readlink -f $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}))
export SOME_VARIABLE
...
I need to source it from a zsh shell as I need to have all the ...
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Zsh: condition if/then in prompt
Doc: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html
doesn't seem to work in this use case.
Use case: if prompt contains localhost then remove hostname from prompt, if not prompt ...
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Why does a failed filename generation make zsh stop processing a script?
I was trying to write a short script which would write all the executable programs found in $PATH:
for dir in $(tr ':' ' ' <<<"${PATH}"); do
for pgm in $dir/*; do
if command -v "${pgm}"...
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zsh `time` doesn't work with `source` [duplicate]
I can use time to get running time statistics:
% time zsh --version
zsh 5.6.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
zsh --version 0.00s user 0.00s system 86% cpu 0.005 total
How can I time how long a source script ...
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How can I view a cheatsheet/summary of a syntax construct of zsh in zsh itself? [closed]
I want something like the doc function in Clojure; I want to type cheat for and be shown some example usages of for in zsh. I don't mind installing an app for this, and I hope something like this has ...
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Tmux: terminal color is different inside tmux
OS: Arch latest
zsh: 5.6.2.1
tmux: 2.8.1
TERM: screen-256color
Color of vim both in terminal st-terminal and tmux set correctly.
But zsh's color - shell's color changed.
e.g: do ls in terminal ...
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How to make zsh pass the manual section to the man command when the `separate-sections` style is set?
When asking for a completion by pressing Tab on the zsh command line, the matches can be grouped according to their tag provided that the group-name style is set to an empty string:
autoload -Uz ...
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“kill -l” only returns ZERR
While trying to send SIGQUIT I got this:
$ kill -s QUIT 4341
kill: unknown signal: SIGQUIT
kill: type kill -l for a list of signals
And I was very surprised to see this:
$ kill -l
ZERR
So, ...
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Remove forward slash when tabbing to see a list of directories
Is there a way to remove the trailing forward slashes in the tab-completion output of Zsh when I start writing a cd command and tab to see a list of directories?
E.g.
~ cd <tab>
Adlm/ ...
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How to auto-update custom plugins in Oh My Zsh?
I've installed Oh My Zsh with a few custom plugins, such as zsh-autosuggestions. Now while Oh My Zsh supports automatic updates, this doesn't apply to custom plugins (installed to the custom/ ...
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How to extend existing zsh completion functions?
I'm trying to add auto-completion for some custom ant parameters. However, it seems to be overwriting the existing oh my zsh ant plugin auto-completions which I'd like to keep. Is there a simple way ...
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Why does zsh replace hyphens with underscores in these functions?
I've got the following function aliases sourced in zsh and bash consoles:
compose() {
docker-compose $*
}
run() {
compose "run --rm app $*"
}
rails() {
run "rails $*"
}
In bash, running ...
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How to use zsh compctl with fallback
is there any way to let a programmable completion fall back to path completion? E.g., if the dotnet process doesn’t return any completion suggestions (https://github.com/dotnet/cli/blob/...
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read from stdin works differently in bash and zsh [duplicate]
I'm trying to pipe a command's output to the read builtin of my shell and I get a different behaviour for zsh and bash:
$ bash -c 'echo hello | read test; echo $test'
$ zsh -c 'echo hello | read ...
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New tmux session only sources .zshrc, and doesn't pick up the $PATH defined in .profile
After reading multiple questions on this topic I still feel lost. I read suggestions that one should set the environment variables including $PATH in .profile instead of specifically in .bashrc or ....
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Change the shell of vim
I change my shell to zsh now.But when I call shell in vim by :! xxx will call the bash.So, how can I call zsh in vim ?
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Run tmux without user process, to just provide its /dev/tty* – is this possible?
In Zsh I can do vared -t /dev/ttys002 ZSH_VERSION and use vared (variable-editor) on a foreign TTY (in this example on OS X /dev/ttys002). I already did this trick with Tmux, first obtaining the TTY ...
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Rip-off (an ncurses term) single bottom line out of /dev/tty terminal, is it possible?
Ncurses allows to separate a single line from screen, at level of physical screen (curscr), to devote it to e.g. a title bar, thus also creating a logical screen (stdscr), devoted to application's ...
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What does `==` do in zsh expansion?
I came upon this code:
map () {
eval "$initDocs"
usage "<lambda-function> [<item>...]"
example "'<--- \$1 --->'" a b c d
eval "$doneDocs"
typeset f="$1"
...
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Unable to source file with aliases in zsh on MacOS [duplicate]
I have created a file with some aliases that I need to from time to time. These aliases are simple kubectl port forwarding commands. For the test purpose, I have left only one alias in the file:
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ZSH Prompt printing '[m' instead of '%'
I added a battery function to my vim statusline here's a link. It displays my battery correctly in vim and if I run $ acpi | grep -oP "(\d+)%" it returns some number followed by the percent sign (as ...
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Non-greedy (extended) globs in zsh
I like to do non-greedy globs, but my Google searches hint that this is not supported. Is this the case? If so, why is it the case?
For example I'd like to use a non-greedy glob in history expansions,...
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Using flock fails with zsh but works in bash?
Employing the mechanism from the answer at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/274499/5132 in the Z shell:
(
flock -x 200
echo "test";
) 200>mylockfile2
returns
zsh: parse error near `200'
While ...
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How to bind a keyboard shortcut in zsh to a program requiring stdin?
This is a follow-up to this question: I'm trying to create a keyboard shortcut for the terminal file manager ranger, in order to jump from the zsh prompt into the file manager with a single keystroke. ...
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Xinit/zsh: jobs control
In .xinitrc, there'll have multiple lines with & to put some commands in background, I'd like to control if a command is completed or not before process to next command.
I use zsh in .xinitrc ...
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Floating point numbers in bash [duplicate]
I want to do some arithmetic with bash. They say to use the right tool for the job, and the shell might not be the right tool here. But it is the right tool for what I'm doing otherwise, and this is ...
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Start shell with tmux and attach only to a session if it is unattached
I am currently starting tmux when opening my shell, which the following config for my shell
[[ $TMUX == "" ]] && tmux new-session
Is there any way to start my shell and attach tmux to the (...
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Zsh wants to correct git hist to git host
On my Mac systems, I have zsh set as the login shell and use oh-my-zsh, and everything works correctly. On our Linux cluster, tcsh is the login shell, and it has to be because our sysadmins have ...
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tcsh tab auto completion to match the MIDDLE part of the file name in the folder?
I have searched through google and So, while there is no hit for the auto completion function for tcsh that can do something similar to zsh that:
when doing 'cd' or 'ls' you can match the MIDDLE ...
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zsh and POSIX equivalent of bash's `{var}>&1`
Is there an equivalent of {var}>&1 in zsh?
The bash manual says:
Each redirection that may be preceded by a file descriptor number may instead be preceded by a word of the form {varname}. ...
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Weird behavior in zsh random generator
I have this script to generate $1 digit(s) of mixed random char from the defined charlists as arrays.
#!/bin/bash
charlist1=(a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z)
charlist2=(0 1 2 3 4 ...
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How to print all the attributes of a zsh parameter?
I can give the -U attribute to a non-associative array so that it can't contain duplicate elements:
% declare -U path
% path=( ~/bin $path )
% path=( ~/bin $path )
% echo $path
Here, even though I'...
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Expanding variable at function definition in zsh
I'm having some trouble with trying to evaluate/expand a variable when I define a function in zsh - Is this possible?
Example:
variable=foo
mytest(){
echo ${variable}
}
mytest //outputs ...
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ZSH and GDBM support
I am trying to learn more about ZSH and the way that my shell is setup and operates. I am running OSX and have installed ZSH with HomeBrew so as not to use my standard system ZSH.
However, before ...
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Replicate oh-my-zsh directory tab completion selection with arrow keys
With oh-my-zsh they've extended cd tab completion so that, once the directory selection is active, you can move around all the available directories with the arrow keys, rather than just tabbing ...
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Zsh/Tmux: Wait for success of subprocess
Refer to this unanswered question before continuing: Tmux: check exit code of command that was sent by send-keys
tmux send-keys just sends the command and exit successfully but repeat 5; do print ...
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Using heredoc in zsh aliases
I would like to use heredoc in a zsh alias, for example:
alias runthing="cd ~; date << HERE
date
HERE"
However every time I run this alias, the shell acts as if I have not terminated the ...
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Display “time” of process periodically
A week ago, I launched simulations as follows:
make rebuild; time make run
Using the command time I recorded the CPU time used in each case.
A week later, the simulations finished but, much to my ...
