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For users who are dissatisfied with the prompts mentioned above (or want to expand their usefulness), Zsh offers the possibility to build a custom prompt. Zsh supports a left- and right-sided prompt additional to the single, left-sided prompt that is common to all shells. Customize it by using {{ic|1=PROMPT=}} with prompt escapes. | For users who are dissatisfied with the prompts mentioned above (or want to expand their usefulness), Zsh offers the possibility to build a custom prompt. Zsh supports a left- and right-sided prompt additional to the single, left-sided prompt that is common to all shells. Customize it by using {{ic|1=PROMPT=}} with prompt escapes. | ||
− | See [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html Prompt Expansion] for a list of prompt variables and conditional substrings, or take a look at the {{man|1|zshmisc | + | See [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html Prompt Expansion] for a list of prompt variables and conditional substrings, or take a look at the {{man|1|zshmisc}} manpage. |
===== Colors ===== | ===== Colors ===== | ||
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Zsh sets colors differently than [[Color_Bash_Prompt|Bash]]. | Zsh sets colors differently than [[Color_Bash_Prompt|Bash]]. | ||
− | See [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html#Visual-effects Visual effects] in {{man|1|zshmisc | + | See [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html#Visual-effects Visual effects] in {{man|1|zshmisc}} for prompt escapes to set foreground color, background color and other visual effects. |
− | Colors can be specified by [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Xterm_256color_chart.svg numeric color code] or by name (see {{man|1|zshzle | + | Colors can be specified by [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Xterm_256color_chart.svg numeric color code] or by name (see {{man|1|zshzle}} section [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html#Character-Highlighting CHARACTER HIGHLIGHTING]). Most terminals support the following colors by name: |
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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cdr allows you to change the working directory to a previous working directory from a list maintained automatically. It stores all entries in files that are maintained across sessions and (by default) between terminal emulators in the current session. | cdr allows you to change the working directory to a previous working directory from a list maintained automatically. It stores all entries in files that are maintained across sessions and (by default) between terminal emulators in the current session. | ||
− | See [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.html#Recent-Directories Remembering Recent Directories] in {{man|1|zshcontrib | + | See [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.html#Recent-Directories Remembering Recent Directories] in {{man|1|zshcontrib}}. |
=== Help command === | === Help command === | ||
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xterm title is set with [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title-3.html#ss3.1 xterm escape sequences]. For example: | xterm title is set with [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title-3.html#ss3.1 xterm escape sequences]. For example: | ||
− | print -n '\e]2;My xterm title\a' | + | $ print -n '\e]2;My xterm title\a' |
will set the title to | will set the title to | ||
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* [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/index-frame.html The Z Shell Manual] (different format available [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/ here]) | * [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/index-frame.html The Z Shell Manual] (different format available [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/ here]) | ||
* [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/FAQ/zshfaq01.html Zsh FAQ] | * [http://zsh.sourceforge.net/FAQ/zshfaq01.html Zsh FAQ] | ||
− | * {{man|1|zsh-lovers | + | * {{man|1|zsh-lovers}} (available as {{pkg|zsh-lovers}} package) |
* [http://zshwiki.org/home/ Zsh Wiki] | * [http://zshwiki.org/home/ Zsh Wiki] | ||
* [[Gentoo: Zsh/Guide]] | * [[Gentoo: Zsh/Guide]] | ||
* [http://www.bash2zsh.com/zsh_refcard/refcard.pdf Bash2Zsh Reference Card] | * [http://www.bash2zsh.com/zsh_refcard/refcard.pdf Bash2Zsh Reference Card] |
Revision as of 10:55, 1 October 2017
Zsh is a powerful shell that operates as both an interactive shell and as a scripting language interpreter. While being compatible with Bash (not by default, only if issuing emulate sh
), it offers advantages such as improved tab completion and globbing.
The Zsh FAQ offers more reasons to use Zsh.
Contents
Installation
Before starting users may want to see what shell is currently being used:
$ echo $SHELL
Install the zsh package. For additional completion definitions, install the zsh-completions package as well.
Initial configuration
Make sure that Zsh has been installed correctly by running the following in a terminal:
$ zsh
You should now see zsh-newuser-install, which will walk you through some basic configuration. If you want to skip this, press q
. If you did not see it, you can invoke it manually with
$ zsh /usr/share/zsh/functions/Newuser/zsh-newuser-install -f
Making Zsh your default shell
See Command-line shell#Changing your default shell.
~/.bashrc
to ~/.zshrc
(e.g. the prompt and the aliases) and from ~/.bash_profile
to ~/.zprofile
(e.g. the code that starts the X Window System).Startup/Shutdown files
- If
$ZDOTDIR
is not set,$HOME
is used instead. - If option
RCS
is unset in any of the files, no configuration files will be sourced after that file. - If option
GLOBAL_RCS
is unset in any of the files, no global configuration files (/etc/zsh/*
) will be sourced after that file.
When starting Zsh, it will source the following files in this order by default:
-
/etc/zsh/zshenv
Used for setting system-wide environment variables; it should not contain commands that produce output or assume the shell is attached to a tty. This file will always be sourced, this cannot be overridden. -
$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv
Used for setting user's environment variables; it should not contain commands that produce output or assume the shell is attached to a tty. This file will always be sourced. -
/etc/zsh/zprofile
Used for executing commands at start, will be sourced when starting as a login shell. Please note that on Arch Linux, by default it contains one line which source the/etc/profile
.-
/etc/profile
This file should be sourced by all Bourne-compatible shells upon login: it sets up$PATH
and other environment variables and application-specific (/etc/profile.d/*.sh
) settings upon login.
-
-
$ZDOTDIR/.zprofile
Used for executing user's commands at start, will be sourced when starting as a login shell. -
/etc/zsh/zshrc
Used for setting interactive shell configuration and executing commands, will be sourced when starting as an interactive shell. -
$ZDOTDIR/.zshrc
Used for setting user's interactive shell configuration and executing commands, will be sourced when starting as an interactive shell. -
/etc/zsh/zlogin
Used for executing commands at ending of initial progress, will be sourced when starting as a login shell. -
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogin
Used for executing user's commands at ending of initial progress, will be sourced when starting as a login shell. -
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogout
Will be sourced when a login shell exits. -
/etc/zsh/zlogout
Will be sourced when a login shell exits.
- The paths used in Arch's zsh package are different from the default ones used in the man pages (FS#48992).
-
/etc/profile
is not a part of the regular list of startup files run for Zsh, but is sourced from/etc/zsh/zprofile
in the zsh package. Users should take note that/etc/profile
sets the$PATH
variable which will overwrite any$PATH
variable set in$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv
. To prevent this, please set the$PATH
variable in$ZDOTDIR/.zprofile
.
/etc/zsh/zprofile
with something other, it will break the integrality of other packages which provide some scripts in /etc/profile.d/
.Configure Zsh
Although Zsh is usable out of the box, it is almost certainly not set up the way most users would like to use it, but due to the sheer amount of customization available in Zsh, configuring Zsh can be a daunting and time-consuming experience.
Simple .zshrc
Included below is a sample configuration file, it provides a decent set of default options as well as giving examples of many ways that Zsh can be customized. In order to use this configuration save it as a file named .zshrc
.
source ~/.zshrc
.Here is a simple .zshrc
:
~/.zshrc
autoload -Uz compinit promptinit compinit promptinit # This will set the default prompt to the walters theme prompt walters
Configuring $PATH
Normally, the path should be set in ~/.zshenv
, but Arch Linux sources /etc/profile
after sourcing ~/.zshenv
.
To prevent your $PATH
being overwritten, set it in ~/.zprofile
.
~/.zprofile
typeset -U path path=(~/bin /other/things/in/path $path[@])
See also A User's Guide to the Z-Shell and the note in #Startup/Shutdown files.
Command completion
Perhaps the most compelling feature of Zsh is its advanced autocompletion abilities. At the very least, enable autocompletion in .zshrc
. To enable autocompletion, add the following to your ~/.zshrc
:
~/.zshrc
autoload -Uz compinit compinit
The above configuration includes ssh/scp/sftp hostnames completion but in order for this feature to work, users need to prevent ssh from hashing hosts names in ~/.ssh/known_hosts
.
no
:
/etc/ssh/ssh_config
#HashKnownHosts yes
And move ~/.ssh/known_hosts
somewhere else so that ssh creates a new one with un-hashed hostnames (previously known hosts will thus be lost). For more information, see the SSH readme for hashed-hosts.
For autocompletion with an arrow-key driven interface, add the following to:
~/.zshrc
zstyle ':completion:*' menu select
- To activate the menu, press tab twice.
For autocompletion of command line switches for aliases, add the following to:
~/.zshrc
setopt COMPLETE_ALIASES
Key bindings
Zsh does not use readline, instead it uses its own and more powerful Zsh Line Editor, ZLE. It does not read /etc/inputrc
or ~/.inputrc
.
ZLE has an emacs mode and a vi mode. If one of the $VISUAL
or $EDITOR
environment variables contain the string vi
then vi mode will be used; otherwise, it will default to emacs mode. Set the mode explicitly with bindkey -e
or bindkey -v
respectively for emacs mode or vi mode.
See ZshWiki: zle:bindkeys for instructions on keybinding setup.
History search
You need to set up #Key bindings to use this. To enable history search add these lines to .zshrc
file:
~/.zshrc
autoload -Uz up-line-or-beginning-search down-line-or-beginning-search zle -N up-line-or-beginning-search zle -N down-line-or-beginning-search [[ -n "$key[Up]" ]] && bindkey -- "$key[Up]" up-line-or-beginning-search [[ -n "$key[Down]" ]] && bindkey -- "$key[Down]" down-line-or-beginning-search
By doing this, only the past commands matching the current line up to the current cursor position will be shown when Up
or Down
keys are pressed.
Prompts
Prompt themes
There is a quick and easy way to set up a colored prompt in Zsh. Make sure that prompt theme system is set to autoload in .zshrc
. This can be done by adding these lines to:
~/.zshrc
autoload -Uz promptinit promptinit
Available prompt themes are listed by running the command:
$ prompt -l
For example, to use the walters
theme, enter:
$ prompt walters
To preview all available themes, use this command:
$ prompt -p
Customized prompt
For users who are dissatisfied with the prompts mentioned above (or want to expand their usefulness), Zsh offers the possibility to build a custom prompt. Zsh supports a left- and right-sided prompt additional to the single, left-sided prompt that is common to all shells. Customize it by using PROMPT=
with prompt escapes.
See Prompt Expansion for a list of prompt variables and conditional substrings, or take a look at the zshmisc(1) manpage.
Colors
Zsh sets colors differently than Bash.
See Visual effects in zshmisc(1) for prompt escapes to set foreground color, background color and other visual effects.
Colors can be specified by numeric color code or by name (see zshzle(1) section CHARACTER HIGHLIGHTING). Most terminals support the following colors by name:
Possible color values | |
---|---|
black or 0 |
red or 1
|
green or 2 |
yellow or 3
|
blue or 4 |
magenta or 5
|
cyan or 6 |
white or 7
|
%F{yellow}text%f
looks brown or a very dark yellow, while %F{yellow}%Btext%b%f
looks like bright or regular yellow.print -P "prompt escapes"
, for example:
$ print -P '%B%F{red}co%F{green}lo%F{blue}rs%f%b'
Example
This is an example of a two-sided prompt:
PROMPT='%F{red}%n%f@%F{blue}%m%f %F{yellow}%1~%f %# ' RPROMPT='[%F{yellow}%?%f]'
And here's how it will be displayed:
username@host ~ % [0]
Sample .zshrc files
- A package in offical repository named grml-zsh-config comes from https://grml.org/zsh and provides a zshrc file that includes many tweaks for Zshell. This is the default configuration for the monthly ISO releases.
- https://github.com/MrElendig/dotfiles-alice/blob/master/.zshrc - basic setup, with dynamic prompt and window title/hardinfo.
- https://github.com/slashbeast/things/blob/master/configs/DOTzshrc - zshrc with multiple features, be sure to check out comments into it. Notable features: confirm function to ensure that user want to run poweroff, reboot or hibernate, support for GIT in prompt (done without vcsinfo), tab completion with menu, printing current executed command into window's title bar and more.
See dotfiles#Repositories for more.
Configuration Frameworks
- Antigen — A plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.
- oh-my-zsh — A popular, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes.
- Note: For themes to work you may need to set
setopt NO_GLOBAL_RCS
in the~/.zshenv
file, otherwise changes to some variables (such as$PROMPT
) may be overwritten.
- Prezto — A configuration framework for Zsh. It comes with modules, enriching the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes.
Tips and tricks
Autostart X at login
See Xinitrc#Autostart X at login.
The "command not found" hook
pkgfile includes a "command not found" hook that will automatically search the official repositories, when entering an unrecognized command.
You need to source the hook to enable it, for example:
~/.zshrc
source /usr/share/doc/pkgfile/command-not-found.zsh
The ttyctl command
[3] describes the ttyctl
command in Zsh.
This may be used to "freeze/unfreeze" the terminal.
Many programs change the terminal state, and often do not restore terminal settings on exiting abnormally.
To avoid the need to manually reset the terminal, use the following:
~/.zshrc
ttyctl -f
Remembering recent directories
Dirstack
Zsh can be configured to remember the DIRSTACKSIZE last visited folders. This can then be used to cd them very quickly. You need to add some lines to your configuration file:
.zshrc
DIRSTACKFILE="$HOME/.cache/zsh/dirs" if [[ -f $DIRSTACKFILE ]] && [[ $#dirstack -eq 0 ]]; then dirstack=( ${(f)"$(< $DIRSTACKFILE)"} ) [[ -d $dirstack[1] ]] && cd $dirstack[1] fi chpwd() { print -l $PWD ${(u)dirstack} >$DIRSTACKFILE } DIRSTACKSIZE=20 setopt AUTO_PUSHD PUSHD_SILENT PUSHD_TO_HOME ## Remove duplicate entries setopt PUSHD_IGNORE_DUPS ## This reverts the +/- operators. setopt PUSHD_MINUS
Now use
$ dirs -v
to print the dirstack. Use cd -<NUM>
to go back to a visited folder. Use autocompletion after the dash. This proves very handy if using the autocompletion menu.
cd
, due to a conflict in both sessions writing to the same file.cdr
cdr allows you to change the working directory to a previous working directory from a list maintained automatically. It stores all entries in files that are maintained across sessions and (by default) between terminal emulators in the current session.
See Remembering Recent Directories in zshcontrib(1).
Help command
Zsh help
command is called run-help
. Unlike bash, zsh does not enable it by default. To use help
in zsh, add following to your zshrc
:
autoload -Uz run-help unalias run-help alias help=run-help
run-help
will invoke man for external commands. Default keyboard shortcut is Alt+h
or Esc+h
.
run-help
has helper functions, they need to be enabled separately:
autoload -Uz run-help-git autoload -Uz run-help-ip autoload -Uz run-help-openssl autoload -Uz run-help-p4 autoload -Uz run-help-sudo autoload -Uz run-help-svk autoload -Uz run-help-svn
For example run-help git commit
command will now open the man page git-commit(1) instead of git(1).
Fish-like syntax highlighting
Fish provides a very powerful shell syntax highlighting. To use this in zsh, you can install zsh-syntax-highlighting from offical repository and add following to your zshrc:
source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
Persistent rehash
Typically, compinit will not automatically find new executables in the $PATH
. For example, after you install a new package, the files in /usr/bin would not be immediately or automatically included in the completion. Thus, to have these new exectuables included, one would run:
$ rehash
This 'rehash' can be set to happen automatically. Simply include the following in your zshrc
:
~/.zshrc
zstyle ':completion:*' rehash true
Bind key to ncurses application
Bind a ncurses application to a keystoke, but it will not accept interaction. Use BUFFER
variable to make it work. The following example lets users open ncmpcpp using Alt+\
:
~/.zshrc
ncmpcppShow() { BUFFER="ncmpcpp"; zle accept-line; } zle -N ncmpcppShow bindkey '^[\' ncmpcppShow
An alternate method, that will keep everything you entered in the line before calling application:
~/.zshrc
ncmpcppShow() { ncmpcpp <$TTY; zle redisplay; } zle -N ncmpcppShow bindkey '^[\' ncmpcppShow
File manager key binds
Key binds like those used in graphic file managers may come handy. The first comes back in directory history (Alt+Left
), the second let the user go to the parent directory (Alt+Up
). They also display the directory content.
~/.zshrc
cdUndoKey() { popd zle reset-prompt echo ls zle reset-prompt } cdParentKey() { pushd .. zle reset-prompt echo ls zle reset-prompt } zle -N cdParentKey zle -N cdUndoKey bindkey '^[[1;3A' cdParentKey bindkey '^[[1;3D' cdUndoKey
xterm title
xterm title is set with xterm escape sequences. For example:
$ print -n '\e]2;My xterm title\a'
will set the title to
My xterm title
An simple way to have a dynamic title is to set the title in a hook function, particularly precmd
and preexec
.
By using print -P
you can take advantage of prompt escapes. Title printing can be split up in multiple commands as long as they are sequential.
~/.zshrc
autoload -Uz add-zsh-hook function xterm_title_precmd () { print -Pn '\e]2;%n@%m %1~\a' } function xterm_title_preexec () { print -Pn '\e]2;%n@%m %1~ %# ' print -n "${(q)1}\a" } if [[ "$TERM" == (screen*|xterm*|rxvt*) ]]; then add-zsh-hook -Uz precmd xterm_title_precmd add-zsh-hook -Uz preexec xterm_title_preexec fi
- Do not use
-P
option ofprint
when printing variables to prevent them from being parsed as prompt escapes. - Use
q
parameter expansion flag when printing variables to prevent them from being parsed as escape sequences.
Uninstallation
Change the default shell before removing the zsh package.
Run following command:
$ chsh -s /bin/bash user
Use it for every user with zsh set as their login shell (including root if needed). When completed, the zsh package can be removed.
Alternatively, change the default shell back to Bash by editing /etc/passwd
as root.
vipw
when editing /etc/passwd
as it helps prevent invalid entries and/or syntax errors.For example, change the following:
username:x:1000:1000:Full Name,,,:/home/username:/bin/zsh
To this:
username:x:1000:1000:Full Name,,,:/home/username:/bin/bash
See also
- A User's Guide to ZSH
- The Z Shell Manual (different format available here)
- Zsh FAQ
- zsh-lovers(1) (available as zsh-lovers package)
- Zsh Wiki
- Gentoo: Zsh/Guide
- Bash2Zsh Reference Card