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This tutorial gives instructions on how to customize the look of macOS's Terminal application. I followed the instructions but used zsh where it said bash in hopes that it would work, but it didn't. I changed the shell to Bash to see how it would work, and it did, but I need to use zsh for work purposes. Is there a way to adapt the tutorial for use in zsh rather than Bash, or is there a tutorial for customizing your zsh shell?

Thanks in advance.

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Is there a way to adapt the tutorial for use in zsh rather than Bash,

No, not really. Customizing Zsh is fairly different from customizing Bash. It would be quite a lot of work.

or is there a tutorial for customizing your zsh shell?

Yes, there is! 🙂 There’s quite a few of them, in fact, but I found this one by far the best: https://scriptingosx.com/2019/06/moving-to-zsh/

However, instead of doing everything by hand, you might just want to copy-paste an existing config to get you started quickly. Here’s one I’ve been working on, with input from the Zsh development group, which has zero external dependencies, and thus should work out of the box for any Zsh installation: https://gitlab.com/marlonrichert/zsh-sensible/-/blob/master/zshrc

Just save that as ~/.zshrc and restart your shell. Please try it out and let me know what you think. Ideas for improvement are welcome. 🙂

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  • I'll try that and tell you how it works. Thanks! I'll accept the answer then!
    – Peter Nielsen
    Mar 24, 2021 at 15:20
  • Thanks! I am using both, alternating when I feel like it. Yours is great and so is Oh My Zsh.
    – Peter Nielsen
    Mar 25, 2021 at 2:17

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