Questions tagged [zsh]
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Unique Features of bash compared to zsh
I have been a zsh user for quite some time (before that tcsh and before that csh). I am quite happy with it, but was wondering if there are any compelling features of bash that do not exist in zsh. ...
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Is there any reason to use bash over zsh? [closed]
I'm curious about why one would want to run bash instead of zsh. I mean zsh is fully backwards-compatible with bash. Don't get me wrong: I don't dislike bash or anything. I just genuinely want to ...
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How do I make zsh completion act more like bash completion?
I'm a recent convert from bash to zsh (which I'm using "oh my zsh" with), but one thing annoys me:
When I hit the tab key, the first autocompletion is filled out automatically, and you need to cycle ...
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ZSH not sourcing zprofile
I'm running zsh 5.1.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. It seems that ~/.zprofile isn't sourced at login nor new terminal. ~/.zshrc is sourced however.
I am running oh-my-zsh.
Any ideas on why this is or how I can ...
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How to edit command completion for ssh on zsh?
I'd like to set up command completion on zsh to display host names after I type
ssh [TAB]
taking the names out of my .ssh/config file (and preferably from known_hosts and /etc/hosts and anywhere ...
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How to delete empty source directories when moving folders with rsync?
rsync can be coaxed into moving folders very similarly and superiorly to traditional mv with the following options:
rsync -axvvES --remove-source-files source_directory /destination/
However one ...
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Copy a range of files in command line (ZSH/BASH)
I have a list of files with consecutive numbers as suffixes. I would like to copy only a range of these files. How can I specify a range as part of my cp command.
$ls
P1080272.JPG* P1080273.JPG* ...
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How to change default shell in FreeBSD?
The default shell in FreeBSD is sh and I really can't stand it: autocomplete is very limited, and rehash commands kill me. I feel like a one armed and one legged man...
How can I change the shell ...
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Keyboard shortcut to store typed command and clean the line
You know the situation: You are halfway through typing a long command (for example a commit message) and realize that you have forgotten to execute some prerequisite command that can not be added with ...
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How to set the default shell when chsh is not present
I've a Synology DS412+ NAS box running Busybox, which has a default shell of ash. Previously, ipkg install optware-devel was run and it installed bash and set it as the default shell. Running ipkg ...
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Excluding Environment Variables from ZSH Autocomplete
Quick example:
~ $ wor<TAB>
~ $ WORDCHARS= ...
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ls gives me "illegal option"
I recently installed zsh and now whenever I ls or ls -l or ls anything I get "illegal option". Not sure where to start looking to fix this.
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How can I open a file whose name starts with "-"?
I am running Ubuntu, and would like to open a file whose file name starts with "-"(minus). When I try to open the file with pico or vim, the command thinks that the "-" sign is an option for the ...
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Removing history or line numbers from ZSH history file
For some reason I get these odd line numbers or history numbers of some sort into my ~/.zsh_history file like so:
: 1266694881:0;rake db:migrate
I'd rather not have to resort to regexing out the ...
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Unable to understand the benefit of Zsh's autopushd
I have in .zshrc
setopt autopushd
It makes cd acts like pushd.
This means that we have no stack at all.
When I have used it, I have not used stack at all, since it removes stack from me.
I am not ...
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Command 'getent'
Part 1
Is getent supposed to be an executable?
In my zsh setup, I can see getent is actually defined as a function
$ which getent
getent () {
if [[ $2 = <-> ]]
then
grep ":$...
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Looking for zsh completion file for osX native commands
I've been digging deep into what actually comes with osX in /usr/bin and especially /usr/libexec.
Quite good stuff really, although the command syntax is a bit.. odd.
Let me direct the curious to ...
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zsh colored files directories
I have a host for my VM, when it had a fresh install of Ubuntu the bash shell had colored directories and files.
How do I duplicate this with ZSH, i've customized my PS1 but I want to customize the ...
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How can I put the last zsh command in history into a clipboard?
It often happens to me, that I just used a command and I need to copy/paste it either to a different terminal window/IM or whatever.
On a Mac, I can use the pbcopy command to get something in ...
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How can I add a word to each element of the array in Zsh?
I did in Zsh:
array={geometry, analysis, topology, graph theory, calculus}
echo $array
and then I wanted to add word "math:" to each element like" math:calculus":
while (( i++ < 10)); { echo ...
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zsh autocompletes folders that don't exist
Just started using zsh with oh-my-zsh, and I noticed something odd when autocompleting with cd.
Suppose I have a folder:
my_folder/
subfolder/
another_subfolder/
file.txt
When I used ...
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remote ZSH and moving to beginning of line gives ^A print
do remote ssh connection in my tmux terminal (zsh) and remote shell is also zSH.
[devops@postgres-prod]~% vi /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/etc/postgresql.conf^A0A^A^A^E^A
So it doesn't react on Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E
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ZSH `--color=auto` doesn't work
For some reason when I execute the following:
ls --color=auto
Results with:
ls: illegal option -- -
usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]
Not sure why this is happening, I'...
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In bash, how do I get possible completions to disappear afterwards?
In bash, when I hit tab and the completion is ambiguous, it appears like this on my screen:
chris@host / $ cd fo
foo/ for/ foz/
chris@host / $ cd fo
I then continue typing, but I get to another ...
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How do you avoid the extra carriage return when you use Zsh history expansion? [closed]
I'm a recent convert to zsh (from bash).
In zsh, as in bash, there is the history expansion feature.
For example, you can do:
git blame somefile.cc
vim !$
Here, vim !$ is same as typing out the ...
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Unable to make Zsh not to suggest a fix for an alias
I have an alias for
alias tdA='todo -a'
I get the following in Zsh
tdA
zsh: correct 'tdA' to 'tda' [nyae]?
How can you make Zsh not to suggest a fix for an alias?
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In zsh, how do you redirect stderr to /dev/null within a for or foreach loop?
I am trying to accomplish something that is easy in bash: look for files in a folder and source them if they exist (and do not output if no files exist).
In bourne shells this is how to do it:
if [...
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SSH connection closes as shell fails to load
I have FreeBSd running with OpenSSH. I set up everything and the connection via SSH worked perfectly. Then I decided to get rid of some not used ports and I obviously uninstalled one that was used by ...
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Get on zsh the same result you get when executing `type -t` on bash?
I have shell script that uses type -t, but since apparently it was originally written for bash and on this machine I on zsh, it's not working.
I see bash docs that type -t does:
If the -t option ...
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Null a file in zsh
In bash i can truncate a file with:
$ > file
However the same command in zsh hangs.
Is it possible to configure zsh to emulate bash when truncating files?
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Anybody knows if there is a counterpart for CTR+w , that deletes immediate words after cursor
I mean when the cursor is on the left side of the words ,I would like to remove the words on the immediate right side of it . CTR+k remove everything on the right side, i only want one word to be ...
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Change the shell for cron job
I have a zsh script that I would like to run via anacron every week.
It runs fine from an interactive bash shell, but when run by anacron, I am getting command not found errors and it looks like it ...
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How to stop the shell interpolating?
I'm writing a bit of Ruby for use on the command line, but the shell is interfering too much - is there a way to turn off interpolation for the entire line? I know I can escape certain characters, but ...
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Running an application in background
I have a web app on a freebsd server. An app is a single executable file, with a built-in webserver. My default shell is zsh.
When I'm running it as "./my_website &" and close a connection, it ...
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mirror STDOUT and STDERR to file by default
How I can accomplish STDOUT to be to logged in a file (appending), but preserving the flow (leave STDOUT to STDOUT) ?
STDOUT should work transparently, but should be logged also into a file, without ...
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Toggle Foreground Process
Ctrl-z suspends the foreground process, but when there is nothing in the foreground it has no effect. I want to overload ctrl-z so when there is nothing in the foreground it brings the most recently ...
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Shell script prevent switching to other shell or escape from it
If in my automation script, I need to do something like install oh-my-zsh, I will have a .sh script like this:
#!/bin/sh
runuser -l user -c 'sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/...
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why won't bash display the results of a 'bind -p' command?
bash refuses to give me the output of 'bind -p' when I pass it in with the -c switch:
bash -c 'bind -p'
but it works to type
bind -p
directly at the bash prompt, and it works to type something ...
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Add "sudo" to the last command line in bash
I run a command, then realize it should have been run with sudo.
In zsh I have a function so that I can hit a ^x^x and it will grab the previous line from the history and prepend sudo to it, so I ...
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zsh printf quote bug
does anyone have any idea why am I getting hit by this bug in zsh since forever?
It's like a string formatting bug of some sorts:
~% printf "%s\n" foo
" foo)foo
Basically anything that has double ...
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zsh completion ( compctl ) does not trig for command names containing dashes
I've used zsh compctl since forever (late 90s or early 00s) but strangly never run into this before.
I realized today when I intended to make some compctl config for update-alternatives that my ...
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The ssh-agent process is not visible to the user who created it but is visible to root
I have adopted the following snippet from Visual Studio Code's documentaion to create an ssh-agent on login:
if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
# Check for a currently running instance of ...
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zsh, zmv mass rename sub directories nothing happening on large volume of directories
I've set
autoload -U zmv
alias mmv='noglob zmv -W'
When on sample data (~20 folders with subfolders) I run
mmv images/**/advert images/**/notice
it just works as expected.
But if I run same ...
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Enable 8th bit as Meta in zsh without a warning
In my quest to configure my shell to work exactly how I want it with respect to the alt/meta key I am having some trouble. Recently I added "bindkey -m" to my .zshrc and now whenever I start a zsh ...
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Netcat on MacOS failing with simple commands
I'n trying to follow a tutorial here.
As an example we can say that we need a friend of ours to help us with something on our work system(Windows). To be able to receive a connection from us first ...
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debugging zsh completion method
I am trying to debug a completion method. This method is supposed to present with all the directories within these three folders. I verified that compinit is loading it correctly. tried tracing and ...
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How to stop CentOS 7 fresh install to stop `clear` from running on exit from ssh session?
I'm finding that upon exit from an ssh session on a CentOS 7 server, it clears the screen each time. I suspect that there's a setting in /etc for the environment that is doing this.
Any ideas of ...
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Trouble installing ZSH
I did the following:
yum install zsh
Then
chsh eduar
New shell [/bin/bash]: /bin/zsh
When I type:
curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | sh
I got this:
You already have Oh My Zsh ...
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zsh extended globbing to create sub directories
% zsh --version
zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0)
% ls -l
bootstrap/ local_folder/ ssh_confs/ zsh_confs/
I am trying to create a sub directory called "files" inside all the directories in ...
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Trouble with name resolution when using programs like `gem` in shell
I have trouble with name resolution when using programs like gem in my shell within my office environment.
Whenever a program needs to connect to a remote host, it fails to resolve the domain name, ...
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