Questions tagged [zsh]
Zsh is a shell with many advanced command-line and scripting features.
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Zsh tab completions not working as desired for partial paths
I want case-insensitive fuzzy completion for files and directories in zsh. After reading the manual for a few hours, this is what I came up with:
zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:globbed-files' matcher 'r:...
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zsh can't input to terminal when piping stdin and stdout with variable command that has tty output
System info:
macOS Sierra 10.12.6
zsh 5.4.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0)
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0)
Scroll to the EXAMPLES at the bottom if you just want to dig ...
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custom zsh autocomplete
I'd like to write a zsh completion for pytest.
Where do I Start? I'm using oh-my-zsh.
in .zshrc:
fpath=($HOME/.mycompletions $fpath)
autoload -U compinit && compinit -u
in $HOME/....
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Making zsh filename completion case-insensitive everywhere
I have the following line in my zshrc to make filename completions case-insensitive:
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
This works most of the time but I’ve noticed that if I ...
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zsh/oh-my-zsh: how to make tab completion add no trailing space for non-folder files?
I installed zsh and oh-my-zsh.
By default, when using tab completion zsh adds a trailing space for non-folder files.
For demonstration I created the following folders/files in a folder named ...
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How to write zsh completion function for wrapper commands
I'm attempting to write a completion function for a custom wrapper around SSH called myssh. myssh takes command line arguments in either of the following forms:
myssh [myssh options] [ssh args]
or
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zsh: locking failed for ~/.cache/zsh/zsh_history: file exists
I have a bind mount ~/.cache/zsh folder between multiple hosts with rw and defaults when doing mount.
When I start both machine and zsh trying to lock zsh_history, it gives error zsh: locking failed ...
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Zsh CORRECT option is unaware of AUTO_CD and CDABLE_VARS
Is there a way to make the CORRECT option aware of AUTO_CD and CDABLE_VARS? In this example, I would expect correction to not be triggered. Could this be a bug?
> setopt autocd
> setopt ...
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Git completions for aliases only available after running `git reflog`
I have a few aliases that I want to autocomplete for git, e.g., the following
alias gco="git checkout"
When I was attempting to add completions for this alias, I looked around in my path and saw ...
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Most recents files/directory suggested results by TAB completion with zsh
I would like to get with TAB suggestion on zsh to get the more recent file as first suggestion after a second TAB pushing.
For the moment, I have with a first TAB pushing the list of the more recent ...
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Are there any Linux distros with a preconfigured user-friendly shell environment?
I see so many Linux distros all around, and they all come with different look & feels and their own set of pre-installed GUI tools for most standard tasks. The default shell environment, however, ...
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How can I save a text file with all command line inputs and outputs without saving the ANSI characters?
I am running the latest mac OS and using zshell, and having trouble writing a shell script. I do most of my work from the command line, and wanted to have a bash script automatically save and log all ...
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How to add the expanded version of commands involving fzf to history?
Say I would like to edit a file ./long/path/to/my/file/test.py with Vim, but I do not remember the path to the file.
In this case, I would run vim `fzf` to use fuzzy search to find and edit the file.
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Why do backgrounded commands in Zsh functions not show correctly in jobs?
In Bash 5.2, the output of jobs after either of the following is identical modulo job numbers:
sleep 3
# press C-z
s() { sleep 3; }
s
# press C-z
In both, jobs produces something like
[1]+ Stopped ...
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Can you please explanation why ssh hostname on zsh for macOS requires a script?
I have an M1 MacBook Pro running macOS 12.1. I'm using the default zsh shell. I've configured my /etc/hosts and my ~/.ssh/config just like I had done when macOS was using bash.
When I go to ssh into ...
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How to do smart backups of terminal history
Trying to implement smart backups of my zsh terminal history (~/.zsh_history). Same goes for bash no difference just the file is called .bash_history.
So far I have decided to create a private git ...
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zsh in tabby separate history for each tab
I want to keep history separated for each tab (even for split windows within one tab). I therefore found a solution to add these two lines after source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh:
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
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Scope zsh history to current file tree if a file exists
I would like to have the following behavior for zsh history:
If the current directory has a .zsh_history file, then treat that file as the history
If the current directory does not have a ....
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Same command sequence produces different results in command-line and script
I'm writing a utility script to help me delete Git branches in zsh. Currently, it looks like this:
git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/ |
while read -r line; do
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Zsh: Is it possible to disable history expansion inside double quotes?
Is it possible to disable history expansion inside double quotes?
I do not want history expansion to be completely disabled, as I still use it, but I see no reason to expand the history inside a ...
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Change zsh tab size
I wanted to change the tab size (the amount of spaces a tab uses) used in my terminal, but it didn't work.
I then found out, that my shell (zsh) inserts a fixed amount of 8 spaces instead of a tab.
I ...
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Can I make shell consider NBSP a whitespace character?
This seems like a common issue: you paste a simple command from somewhere into the terminal and it's not being understood by a shell:
$ echo test
$ zsh: command not found: echo test
The reason is ...
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zsh _arguments completion that gradually reveals options
I have at the moment a completion function that looks something like this (except way more entries)
_arguments \
'-check[do a check]' \
'-play[play a specific song]:songnumber' \
'-test.n=[run ...
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XFCE - Blank text in terminal
I've just performed a fresh install of Arch Linux on my laptop (ThinkPad A485, though that's probably not relevant here), and installed XFCE4. Everything seems to be working with the exception of one ...
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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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ZSH custom completion from command output
I am creating a custom completion for my command ipadd which will automatically complete all the network devices for OS X. It has a parameter --device which allows you to specify the network devices ...
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Cannot recover from sleeping tmux during SSH session
I've tried searching this on google but have been very unsuccessful so I've resorted to trying to get someone's help with this.
On my local machine I do the following:
$ tmux
CTRL+b CTRL+z
$ fg
and ...
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zsh fail to keep unquoted `$*` and `$@` equal
All shells tested do the same for the (quoted) pair "$*" and "$@" with this code:
c='set a b @ c; IFS=:,@ ; a=$(printf "<%s> " "$*"); b=$(printf "<%s> " "$@"); printf "%-20s and %-20s\n" "...
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Can I prevent zsh slowing with a large history?
I've just migrated from bash to zsh. I converted ~/.bash_history for use in zsh. It's 150 000 lines long. bash is almost instantaneous to start up, but zsh is now fairly slow, taking half a second to ...
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Byobu - New window with same ssh session?
Is there a way to configure Byobu to use same ssh session in a new window. For e.g.
Open Byobu window
ssh into a remote host
Press 'F2' to open a new window. This opens the terminal with my ...
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Why does select-word-style stop me from using backward-kill-word for leading whitespace?
If I have just some whitespace at be beginning of my zsh prompt, I can usually ^W (backward-kill-word) it away. However, as soon as I load select-word-style - even if I don't select any special style -...
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Powerline bash prompt not colorized in tmux
The bash/zsh commandline prompt is not displaying colors in tmux, even though I managed to get the powerline itself working (with colors).
The prompt works fine in pure bash/zsh.
I am getting the ...
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Prevent ZSH from saving $PREBUFFER into history after interrupt
In a continuation context ($PREBUFFER is not empty) like below:
$ echo 1 \
$
Right after I type Ctrl+C to interrupt the input, ZSH will save $PREBUFFER into the history file:
...
: 1676711302:0;echo ...
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Autocomplete of diff command not working in zsh / oh-my-zsh
On MacOS I am using oh-my-zsh with no customization that I know of.
Autocompletion is mostly working quite nicely and I'm very happy with it. But for some reason the diff command is different.
➜ ls ...
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zsh zpty does not work on macOS, does work on Linux?
zsh module zsh/zpty seems to work perfectly well on my Linux virtual machine running on Apple M1 macOS machine. But the same does not work on macOS (even on the same host machine). I have tried this ...
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In Linux shell, have Ctrl-W / ^W send EOF when input is empty like Ctrl-D / ^D does?
Is there any way to have ^W behave the same way as ^D with empty input in a shell? I use zsh, but this should apply to bash as well. It otherwise does nothing (if the input line is already cleared) ...
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how to change prompt of zle widgets (history-incremental-backward-search)?
Is there a way to change the prompt of zle widgets such as history-incremental-backward-search?
For instance I wonder if we can colorize "bck-i-search:" or change the string, or colorize the ...
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Replicate backward search with fzf in zsh
I've been struggling to find a simple answer to this and it seems like it is not trivial to customise the default integration of fzf/zsh (would like to understand if I'm wrong here).
I am looking for ...
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How to override builtin Completion file?
I have made some modifications in _stow completion file.
I want to override /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/_stow with $HOME/.dotfiles/.resources/zsh-dotfiles/zsh-custom-completions/_stow
I ...
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How to paste selection from vi-mode to clipboard
I want to access the content of what I copied in the buffer with the vi-mode of the clipboard via the command ctrl + v or ctrl + shift + v in the terminal.
I copied in my .zshrc the following: (from ...
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Prevent the line `load:... cmd:... running ...` upon SIGINFO
Issuing SIGINFO (e.g. by pressing ^T) while a terminal process is running usually results in a printout of a line
load: 2.93 cmd: sleep 7826 waiting 0.00u 0.00s
If I have written the tool that's ...
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Preview Oh My Zsh completion
I would like to preview what, if anything, would be completed using oh-my-zsh suggestions. In other words, a visual indicator that pressing TAB will insert what I think it will.
in different color (...
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Chsh Enterpise login
I installed Fedora 34 and did the Enterprise Login (domain user).
I can't use chsh for change the user default shell to zsh because user does not exists. (It's not present in /etc/passwd because is ...
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zsh: Make getting the value of a variable invoke a function
I like to use a "getter" function for some variable foo, such that using "$foo" is equivalent to "$(foo-getter)".
It think this should be possible, as $EPOCHREALTIME ...
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Queue multiple jobs after current one in shell
On previous questions similar to mine, the proposed solutions are all involved suspending the current foreground task with Ctrl+Z and then running fg && ... or fg ; ... (and maybe sending the ...
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wine-platform-5-staging & wine-platform-runtime not found by shell
I'm running Kubuntu 20.04 64-bit with zsh as my shell. I installed wine-platform-runtime and wine-platform-5-staging as snaps. However, zsh doesn't recognize it's installed.
The following 3 commands ...
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zsh some unicode input shown as code in angle brackets in prompt line (but not output)
In my cygwin / mintty setup, when I have the unicode characters and U+1F60C (😌 relieved face) in my Windows clipboard, type echo ', paste, type ' and enter, zsh displays it as inverse video <d83d&...
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User defined functions in zsh prompt
I'm trying to use a functions that returns the number of commits in a given branch in the zsh prompt. This is what I have now:
setopt PROMPT_SUBST
autoload -Uz vcs_info
precmd() { vcs_info }
zstyle ':...
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How can I enable colours in ZSH for root user?
I'm trying to move from Bash to ZSH, whichc is the new default shell on Mac OS Catalina. I have some bash settings in my profile, and I'd like to translate these settings into the ZSH, including my ...
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How to fix path typos?
When typing quickly, I often mistype cd ~/myfiles as cd ~?myfiles, resulting in:
zsh: no matches found: ~?myfiles
Is there a way ZSH can autocorrect such mistakes?
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