Questions tagged [zsh]
Zsh or Z Shell is the default Unix shell used by Terminal in macOS since 10.15
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Every time I start my terminal, I get “.zshrc:source:18: no such file or directory: /sourceme.sh”?
I've been trying to download some softwares. I've deleted those files, but now, I think my zsh file keeps wanting to source a file that's no longer there. Because of that, I get the following message ...
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why does find / rm tells me it doesn't find a folder after it found it?
I'm trying to remove some folders recursively:
find . -name bin -type d -exec rm -r {} \;
when I run it, I get an output like this:
find: ./Services/BinanceConnector/bin: No such file or directory
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Make username@machine bold in Terminal's ZSH shell but not the command's output
How can I make Terminal, using ZSH shell, display username@machine current_folder % in bold? I know it has to do with editing PS1 variable in zshrc file located in /etc folder. I have tried that, I ...
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Command in shell script to minimize particular window of an open app? [duplicate]
How can I include in a (zsh) shell script a command that will minimize one particular window among several windows open in a specified app?
I already know how to include a command that opens an app ...
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How can I convert this Bash prompt to zsh?
I have the following configuration for Bash:
# Change Prompt
# ------------------------------------------------------------
export PS1="...
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Zsh bin will not allow me to access file folders via referencing the folder in terminal
I am currently using macOS Cataliana version 10.15.6, and I am having trouble accessing folders via terminal when I type one of these two commands:
~ (/Users/((user)) )
or
/Users/(user)/Library/...
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Cannot find my Miniconda Python installation after switching from bash to zsh
Recently after upgrading to Catalina, the terminal changed from bash to zsh, and I lost my Python installation.
My Python was installed with Miniconda, but now I can't find it anymore, I can only see ...
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Why does my zsh program run fine in terminal, but not as an automator app? [duplicate]
I got a mac last week and am trying to learn the basics by coding a few projects I came up with. I've been creating a few apps I can place on the dock that automate simple functions that I use often. ...
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$PATH vs. $path
I can't remember why, but a long time ago, I found that for some reason, I needed to set both of these variables. It caused no problems in bash, but now in zsh, when I put
export PATH=~/bin:/opt/...
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zsh: command not found: msfconsole
Installed Metasploit on my macOS Catalina from the rapid7 website - pkg installation. When trying to run the command msfconsole the terminal displays the following error:
zsh: command not found: ...
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Any other Terminal / shell based options to strip all ACLs and extended attributes from a folder?
I'm having some trouble deleting some folders that contain nothing and have no processes or kexts utilizing them (lsof | grep path_element). When I try to delete them (as root) I get:
root@hostname /#...
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How can I set oh my zsh to be my default shell?
I'm using Hyper as my terminal application and I just installed Oh My Zsh via curl. I'd like it to be my default shell environment but for some reason whenever I restart Hyper I have to run the zsh ...
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how dangerous is it to give zsh full disk access?
I have a shell script that runs a few (Duplicacy) backup commands. It works fine when I manually run the script from terminal (cd to the directory where it is and then ./backup.sh).
To make it run ...
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Vim frozen and unresponsive on startup
I am using zsh on macOS. When I type vim, it opens, but it is completely frozen:
Anything I press on the keyboard does not display or change the window. In order to exit, I have to terminate the ...
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How to identify the largest files in a directory including in its subdirectories?
I have a directory with a lot of files and subdirectories. I know there are a small number of large files contained somewhere within. What is a quick/easy way to identify one or more large files in a ...
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Launchd/Launchctl - pre and post scripting
Is there any way with ld/lctrl to execute pre/post commands similar to systemd's ExecStartPre/ ExecStopPost?
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grep ^\. not working as expected in Mac terminal
if I run the following command in my mac terminal:
ls -al | grep ^\.
or
ls -al | grep '^\.'
or
ls -al | grep "^\."
I get no results back even though there are several files in my home ...
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MacOS Catalina terminal tab doesn't remember its own previous commands
I upgraded from El Capitan to Catalina recently; when I click ā in any terminal tab it used to toggle previous commands executed within that specific tab only, but now it will show commands for all ...
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zsh can't see and doesn't load the ~/.zshrc startup file
After upgrading to Catalina and encountering the zsh upgrade reminder when launching Terminal, I've decided to switch to zsh.
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use ...
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zsh-autosuggestions: How to install zpty module?
I love zsh-autosuggestions and found in the README:
completion: Chooses a suggestion based on what tab-completion would
suggest. (requires zpty module)
With a web search I din't find out what zpty ...
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Best Practice for User Shell Scripts location and/or PATH
I am interested in knowing if there is a best practice for placing/storing custom shell (Bash/Zsh) scripts and it's related PATH location.
I know folks have their favorite places - I usually dumped ...
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MacOs Terminal zsh - cannot use ansi
my .bash_profile is setting up my prompt like this
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(...
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MacOS Catalina - iTerm2 - Strange message when rebooting the MacBook pro
When I reboot my Macbook pro and after logging, I have a strange message on a iTerm2 terminal window that appears and that doesn't give the hand :
/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/image_decoder; ...
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Ditto command and wildcard on Catalina?
I've learnt a bit about ditto and tried this:
mkdir testingdir
ditto myfile.css testingdir
which seemed to work.
How could I ditto one file , e.g. myfile.css to several folders within testingdir, e....
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macOS Big Sur and bash
In Catalina, Apple made ZSH the default shell, however, macOS retained the (now deprecated) Bash. Despite my attempts to unearth something related to this, I couldn't find out whether Big Sur will ...
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Why is Apple changing the default shell to zsh? [duplicate]
As bash is so broadly available, it provides a good compatibility layer for users that come from other Posix systems to use macOS. Why the move to zsh as the default shell, and why the extensive ...
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Terminal shows “active process” as “-zsh āø -zsh”
I have configured Terminal.app to show the "active process" in the tab title.
When I open a new Terminal tab, it shows the corresponding field as "-zsh āø -zsh" rather than just "zsh" by default:
My ...
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Change directory in Terminal if working folder moved to Trash (in interactive shell)?
So occasionally I will be working in zsh, in an interactive shell, and will shift to the Finder (or Path Finder) and while there will throw the folder, that is the current working directory in the ...
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MacOS mdfind/mdutil issue and updatedb command : how to index all the files on my /Volume (root /)
A simple question : on Linux, updatedb command which is launched a second time seems not to reindex all the hard disk.
On MacOS Catalina (or maybe for previous), it seems that the command sudo /usr/...
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Tab key on ZSH terminal in Catalina keeps running “bundle exec jekyll serve”
I don't have jekyll installed on my system
ā ~ Could not locate Gemfile or .bundle/ directory
ā ~ which jekyll
jekyll not found
ā ~ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
ā ~
ā ~ which bundle
zsh: correct '...
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How to omit file extension from zsh autocomplete?
I'm new to zsh in Catalina. In .zshrc, I currently have
setopt CORRECT
setopt CORRECT_ALL
When I run a java program from the command line, I want only:
% java ProgramName
If I type java Pro ...
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How can I get emacs to see ZSH's environment variables when I open it from /Applications [duplicate]
When I launch emacs from ZSH, it works as desired. Specifically, it sees that my HOME directory is /Users/myname/Dropbox, so it looks for .emacs.d there.
Unfortunately, when double-click the emacs ...
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iTerm2 - zsh - keep history of commands when opening a new pane
with zsh on MacOS Catalina, when I split my current window of iTerm2 by opening a new pane, I would like to be able to keep in this new pane the history of commands of previous pane (which is still ...
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How can I get .zshrc to run in its entirety every time I open zsh
Here is the entirety of my .zshrc.
alias ll='ls -l'
export HOME='/Users/rcorty/Dropbox'
This file is at /Users/myname/.zshrc.
When I start iTerm2, I check whether the home directory was reset by ...
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iTerm unresponsive as xcode attempts (and fails) compiling every startup
Very recently, iTerm has become unresponsive for me when I open new instances of it. Whenever I open a new window or tab of iTerm, Xcode seems to be attempting to recompile a slightly older version of ...
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Will I break anything by changing HOME to /Users/flname/Dropbox
I have two computers and I want to just turn them on and have the same experience on both. I think the best way to do this is to have my preferences files in my Dropbox. Problem is, my applications ...
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Why do my environment variables keep getting wiped out in Mac OS Catalina?
I am currently using MacOS Catalina, and every time my computer boots up from having shut down the environment variables get wiped out. I literally have to manually run export FOO=bar each time my ...
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Catalina's zsh and its .zshrc file
I am trying hard to wrap my head around zsh "upgrade" from bash in macOS Catalina. Most of the things are great, actually. However, I cannot figure out why I am experiencing difficulties, like ...
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How to save text to speech as a voice recording?
say "Hello World"
is pretty neato, but it requires the terminal to stay open. Is there a nice way to save the recording from what a "say" would output as a file?
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How to change the size of the icons that appear in the Terminal.app
After updating to MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 the icons that appear in my Terminal.app have become extremely small. As you can see in the picture, there is a big gap between the arrow -> that is ...
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Verifying zsh version on macOS Catalina upon brew install
The default zsh version located at /bin/zsh is 5.7.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0).
I brew installed a new version, added /usr/local/bin/zsh to /etc/shells, and issued chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh to ...
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How can I construct my grep command on zsh to return a specific value?
I am trying to use the command line to extract a specific value from a web page.
The page is from the VS Code marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HCLTechnologies....
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ZSH prompt issue : commands shifted to the right on one hundred space characters when doing completions, i.e using TAB key
From this post, Get Function Into PS1 (Zsh)? , it seems to be possible to execute a function inside a ZSH prompt`.
Here how to use a function into PROMPT :
setopt PROMPT_SUBST
slash_color () { dirs |...
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ZSH issue with colorized prompt and double slash, i.e “//” appearing when I am into root
I am faced to a problem of appearing slash / appearing double slash into PS1 when I am located on root / .
I explain more precisely, I have in .zshrc :
setopt PROMPT_SUBST
slash_color () { dirs | ...
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How to make path prompt easier to read by color-coding each `/` (forward slash)?
I would like to get another configuration for the path, more a detail than a real request:
Below an example of zsh PROMPT :
In order to make reading the path easier, I would like to change ...
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ZSH: .zprofile, .zshrc, .zlogin - What goes where?
Now that I've upgraded to Catalina and I am using the new ZSH shell, I've noticed that ~/.bash_profile has been replaced with ~/.zprofile and since installing iTerm2 shell integration, it added a ~/....
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iTerm2 : Adapting zshrc prompt to get the same one than with .bashrc
I switched from bash shell to zsh. After sourcing a main part of my old .bashrc to .zshrc, I am faced a problem concerning the rendering of prompt with zsh (which works with bash) :
function ps1 {
...
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Message “anaconda3 Py” in Iterm2 with zsh
I recently installed Anaconda, but in my Terminal (Iterm2), this message appears on the right "anaconda3 Py".
I want to remove that message, but obviously without uninstalling anaconda.
Maybe the ...
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Why do I have a folder with a question mark on my terminal title bar?
I've been trying to solve this for a few weeks now and the only thread I could find with this issue is this old thread which did not solve my issue.
I've checked .bash_profile, .bashrc, .zshrc, ....
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Did the shell ( terminal ) change in Catalina?
My login script is behaving oddly since I moved to Catalina. Particularly this line:
# set cursor to display path and command count
PS1="<: \w | \! :> "
Now my cursor actually has a \w and a \...
