Questions tagged [zsh]
Zsh is a shell with many advanced command-line and scripting features.
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About Precommand Modifiers in zsh
Background
While the zsh documentation (ch 6.2) provides a description for what precommand modifiers can do, it fails to provide examples for each type: -, builtin, command, exec, nocorrect, and ...
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What is the zsh equivalent of "pushd -n" in bash?
I want to push a directory onto the directory stack in order to refer to it using "tilde shorthand" (eg. ~1 refers to the second entry in the directory list), but I don't want to actually ...
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Dynamically change number of columns in ZSH
I like using W3M to read articles online, and I want to create reader-mode functionality whereby I make the terminal full-screen and restrict the output of W3M to the center of the screen.
I run W3M ...
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Zsh cursor is on the dollar sign after changing directory
Why when I do cd to a directory, the cursor is placed on the dollar sign.
I'm using urxvt, however it also happens in another terminal.
The primary prompt string is defined as:
PS1='[%{$fg[$NCOLOR]%}%...
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Why does echo "$ZDOTDIR" return nothing?
Background
In Chapter 5 of the ZSH manual it states:
Commands are first read from /etc/zshenv; this
cannot be overridden...Commands are then read from
$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv.
Issue
I wanted to view what ...
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Shift + arrow keys adding characters to terminal instead of selecting text
I am running macos monterey (Version 12.0.1 (21A559)).
I am using zsh, on iterm 2. With omz installed, and powerlevel10k theme installed. Recently I noticed that I cannot select text in terminal using ...
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how to recursively remove embedded carriage return in filenames
Is there a way to recursively remove a carriage return \r character that has been appended to thousands file names across a hierarchy of dozens of folders? Also, not all files were affected.
For ...
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How to solve spawn bin/zsh ENOENT?
I am installing dependencies for a project using NodeJS, Angular and Node-Sass, all goes ok when installing both Node and Angular, but when installing Node-saas i got an error:
npm ERR! code ...
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zsh case-insensitive globbing
Context: macOS Catalina (zsh)
This script is to process all JPEG files. This script does not process .JPG files, however it does process .jpg files.
top=/Users/user/Desktop/
for file in $top/**/*.jp*...
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Set custom shell history file [duplicate]
How to set an alternative path for the zsh history file instead of the default ~/.zsh_history?
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Please explain the behavior of these parameter expansions using IFS?
I'm trying to figure out how to use the ${parameter%word} expansion with $@ and $*. It started by trying to make a script to combine pdfs using ghostscript, but I ran into some weird behavior with ...
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What does $^@ (dollar caret at) mean in a shell script?
I found references for parameter expansion, but none of them explain what $^@ does. From context, I think it's used to expand e.g. ~/$^@ into ~/$1 ~/$2 ..., but I'm not sure, and I can't find any ...
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what is this zsh syntax? name()true
I am assuming the following block represents a function, but it may not:
mounted()true
if
...
fi ... && mounted
I want to understand what that construct is. I did not find similar syntax ...
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Zsh can't find terminal definitions on Mac
Perhaps it's from updating Brew (I use Homebrew Bash and Zsh on Mac), but Zsh can no longer find xterm definitions.
For instance, in my .zshrc file I have the following:
export TERM=xterm-256color
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Equivalent of PSReadLine for bash
For my Windows Terminal using Powershell I have the plugin PSReadline which gives me some pretty handy features. For instance a navigatable list view of my history when I start typing. So if I type cd ...
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Getting zsh to display possibilities rather than autocompleting
I just made a new manjaro KDE install and have been working a bit in the konsole, which looks and mostly works amazingly. The default shell seems to be zsh. I only have one issue however, I prefer ...
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`trap` shell command: Is there a way to STOP trapping once an event is complete?
I'm working on a BASH script (see below), that will vomit out the keycodes on keypress for my own use in a different, unrelated script. Contained therein is a trap command for SIGINT which, amongst ...
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Disable zsh "smart" autocompletion for gem command, but keep ordinary path completion
I'm on a Mac running macOS 12.0.1 and trying to switch over from bash to zsh. When I'm trying to issue something like the following command:
gem install pg -v 1.2.3 -- --with-pg_config=/opt/homebrew/...
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create an alias on ZSH but need to type it twice
I'm trying to create an alias on ZSH.
The aim of the alias is to activate a python virtualenv.
I've put a line in my .zshrc
alias SOU="source /home/andykw/.zshrc && source $(setopt ...
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Would including a line like "source ~/rc/.zshrc" in my ~/.zshrc be equivelent to including all the text from ~/rc/.zshrc in my ~/.zshrc?
I want to keep my ~/.zshrc in a github repo, and since I don't want to make my ~ folder a git repository, I plan to move my ~/.zshrc to a folder called rc and then include source ./rc/.zshrc in my ~/....
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Permission denied on trying to "rm -rf" my own directory on macOS command line
I have noticed rm -rf has a strange behavior in my macOS BigSur.
I created a directory for a font installation:
~/code ❯ ls -la 10:06:54
total ...
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Autostart Fbterm then Tmux in Arch Linux
i have installed Arch Linux and i want to use the OS without GUI. so i installed FBTERM and TMUX to assists my life in GUI-less OS. both programs running perfectly, so i want to make FBTERM and TMUX ...
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How to prevent zsh from storing "up" commands to history?
For example, say I do a command like appbuild by hitting up arrow ten times in a row. Now, if I want to go back to the last unique command before that, I have to hit up ten times in a row.
Any way to ...
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Exiting zsh on the Terminal in mac doesn't quit the window
As I exit out of zsh on the terminal on MacOs, it gives me a message:
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
[Process ...
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How can I make an autocomplete function for zsh that can allow for a random number?
I have a small script for managing tickets in gitlab repos. When I type ticket and press tab, I'd like to see:
% ticket
new -- create a new ticket
# -- Number of ticket
-v -- increase verbosity
...
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zsh: rename file if file in subfolder has same name
There is the following file structure:
charlie
├──this-file.foo.1
├──this-file.foo.2
└──this-file.foo.3
foxtrot
├──another-file.foo.1
├──another-file.foo.2
├──another-file.foo.3.bar
├──another-file....
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Repeat char n times in zsh prompt
I'm working on a custom ZSH prompt and I want to repeat a char n times in a string (such as spaces for padding). This string is printed with print -rP (the -r flag ignores echo escape conventions and ...
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Rename file sets with multiple (incl. compounded) extensions in shell
I have a list of file sets with a lot of extensions, but unique names.
filename-1.foo.001
...
filename-1.foo.020
filename-1.foo.baz
filename-1.foo.bar1-2.baz
...
filename-1.foo.bar7-8.baz
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Converting a bash script to use in zsh
The following bash script was posted in this thread as a means of setting an ST (terminal window's) title in DWM (X window manager). While adding this segment to by .bashrc has the desired result, I ...
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How to move every file in a folder to a subdirectory of the same name?
Say I have a bunch of files in a directory
filename-1.ext1
filename-1.ext2
filename-1.ext3
filename-2.ext1
filename-2.ext2
filename-2.ext3
filename-3.ext1
filename-3.ext2
filename-3.ext3
I then want ...
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What is the best way to auto-remove .zsh_history after a certain time?
I feel like there is no ZSH setup option to auto-remove .zsh_history after a certain time (e.g. older than one month from now). What would be the simplest hack to achieve it?
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loop through one file extension or the other in bash or zsh
This is syntactically correct:
for f in *bw;do echo $f;done
But How would I add an extension to loop through one or the other?
The following doesn't work:
for f in *bw|*txt;do echo $f;done
And this ...
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Installing zsh from source file without root user access
I clone the source of zsh source file from github, after that I ran the command
bash install-sh
and
./install
It prompt to me that
No input file specified
.
Then follow the instructions I tried
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!!: command not found
Recently, I was getting a bit frustrated about not running commands as admin, and started using sudo !! a lot. I decided that, for ease of use, I'd create an alias ffs for that exact line. I added the ...
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zsh pipestatus disappears in the following prompt
I am on zsh 5.8 (arm-apple-darwin20.2.0). Unlike the way PIPESTATUS in bash is available to read during the next shell prompt, pipestatus of pipe in zsh seems to disappear in the following prompt.
❯ ...
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zsh script to rsync multiple files from same remote directory
I'm running Debian Bullseye (if that matters), and I'm writing a zsh script to use rsync to copy multiple files/directories (passed as arguments to the script) from a given remote directory. They're ...
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zsh: understanding sequence of redirections and pipe with pointers
In zsh,
echo "hello" 1>&1 1>&1 1>&1 | cat
prints hello 8 times, while
echo "hello" 1>&1 1>&1 1>&1 1>&1 | cat
prints hello 16 ...
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Ctrl-D doesn't close the terminal inside VIM after piping the output of cat to clipboard (needs :q)
It's a very specific problem, so I'll try to provide everything that I think might be relevant.
I have these two aliases in my ~/.zshrc for copying and pasting the output of commands:
$ grep xclip ~/....
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Closing stdout fd gives error, while closing stderr fd does not
The following test code gives error "bad file descriptor". Why is that so? This is just a test code to understand file descriptors and their interaction with pipes.
Example 1)
❯ echo "...
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Redirection to stderr works in bash, not in zsh
In bash,
❯ echo "hello" 1>&2 | echo "world"
hello
world
In zsh,
❯ echo "hello" 1>&2 | echo "world"
world
More than a way around this, I am ...
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zftp connection refused, sftp works
When I try to sftp into a virtual machine's IP address it works well (I am able to do all the sftp provided operations). But when I try to use zsh's zftp for the same IP address, the connection is ...
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I cannot set env variable on zsh
I am using Kali linux:
lsb_release -a
"
Distributor ID: Kali
Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release: 2021.2
Codename: kali-rolling
"
i set env variable
export DB_USER=...
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How can I change the location of .xinitrc and .zsh* files
I want to change the location of .xinitrc, .zshrc and .zshenv to ~/.config/x/xinitrc, ~/.config/zsh/zshrc and ~/.config/zsh/zshenv, but without simlinking them.
How can I achieve this? Do I have to ...
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Prevent zsh's time command from giving output of program
With zsh on my Terminal,
time hello.out
gives
Hello World
user 0.002
system 0.003
total 0.006
I have configured my .zshrc file with the following:
TIMEFMT=$'\nuser\t%*U\nsystem\t%*S\ntotal\...
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How can a shell script know it was invoked on the shell's CLI?
I would like to implement a zsh script that behaves differently depending on whether it was invoked directly on the shell's CLI or not.
I thought at first that the script could do this by looking for ...
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How can I introduce a pause during a tmux send-keys operation?
I want to use tmux's send-keys to run a series of commands when I log into a remote server
In the linked answer, a single command is used. I've found that I can put a series of them but I've never ...
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Insert newline to the beginning of the command if it's too long
Similar to this question, but instead of adding a new line to the end of the prompt, add a new line to the beginning of the long command (when a command reaches to the right side of the command line ...
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Displaying icons for directories in zsh prompt
This is, roughly, my left prompt for zsh:
# Libraries
autoload -Uz colors && colors
# User color
if [ "$(whoami)" = "root" ]; then
COLOR="red"
elif [ "$(...
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Is there a way to print the commands that the shell builtin `source` is calling when sourcing a script? [duplicate]
sh, bash, etc. have a -x flag that will show you each command that is executing in a script. This is handy for debugging.
$ sh -x my_script.sh
+ case $SOMETHING_DIR in
+ unset ...
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Zsh autocompletion for function based on git, why is compdef not working in .zshrc?
I have an alias for git defined as
alias g=git
With this and my zsh and antigen setup, g has the same auto-completion as git.
However, when I replace g with a function to show the git status by ...
