ZSH - A Better Shell - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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yramagicman
Don't edit /etc/passwd directly! You can seriously bork your system if you get a syntax error in there. If you must edit /etc/passwd directly use sudo vipw, which will copy /etc/passwd to a tmp file and make sure the syntax is correct before overwriting /etc/passwd.
The correct way to change your shell is to:
1. Confirm that the full path of the shell you want is in /etc/shells. Something like -grep -$(which zsh)- /etc/shells- will do just fine. If nothing is returned from grep then -echo -$(which zsh)- - sudo tee -a /etc/shells- will fix the problem. (The echo probably isn't even necessary.)
2. Use chsh to change your shell. -chsh -s $(which zsh)- is the safest way to accomplish this. It will prompt you for your password, then set your shell to the correct path in /etc/passwd
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Don't edit /etc/passwd directly! You can seriously bork your system if you get a syntax error in there. If you must edit /etc/passwd directly use sudo vipw, which will copy /etc/passwd to a tmp file and make sure the syntax is correct before overwriting /etc/passwd.
The correct way to change your shell is to:
1. Confirm that the full path of the shell you want is in /etc/shells. Something like -grep -$(which zsh)- /etc/shells- will do just fine. If nothing is returned from grep then -echo -$(which zsh)- - sudo tee -a /etc/shells- will fix the problem. (The echo probably isn't even necessary.)
2. Use chsh to change your shell. -chsh -s $(which zsh)- is the safest way to accomplish this. It will prompt you for your password, then set your shell to the correct path in /etc/passwd
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Whisley
I decided to give it a go after years since the last time I played with this.
I followed your website but suggestions, jump, change the colour when a known command is inserted, none of that are working. Yes, the packages were installed. If anyone has any idea...
When I tried to call gcloud tho, it does show the cloud project I am connected with which is awesome, and graphically saves your ass from running commands in production instead of the staging cloud hahaha
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I decided to give it a go after years since the last time I played with this.
I followed your website but suggestions, jump, change the colour when a known command is inserted, none of that are working. Yes, the packages were installed. If anyone has any idea...
When I tried to call gcloud tho, it does show the cloud project I am connected with which is awesome, and graphically saves your ass from running commands in production instead of the staging cloud hahaha
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Christopher
Hi Chris, I'm really a fan of zsh and powerlevel10k, but I noticed something. You included instructions to install zsh-syntax-highlighting, but after the installation is done, there's no syntax highlighting in the terminal. Would you be willing to do a followup video for setting up syntax highlighting?
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Hi Chris, I'm really a fan of zsh and powerlevel10k, but I noticed something. You included instructions to install zsh-syntax-highlighting, but after the installation is done, there's no syntax highlighting in the terminal. Would you be willing to do a followup video for setting up syntax highlighting?
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Submersed24
I'm very confused, I installed nvm on a bash shell profile.. is there any way to move it to a zsh shell? Will it cause issues if I put some things on zsh and some on bash
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I'm very confused, I installed nvm on a bash shell profile.. is there any way to move it to a zsh shell? Will it cause issues if I put some things on zsh and some on bash
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David
An even easier way to change your default shell is using the -chsh- command. For Ubuntu-based distros it's in the -util-linux-user- package if it's not already installed.
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An even easier way to change your default shell is using the -chsh- command. For Ubuntu-based distros it's in the -util-linux-user- package if it's not already installed.
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Seth
The ugly default prompt turned me off at first (I don't like the % sign as the prompt), but when I learned to customize it I instantly switched from bash.
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The ugly default prompt turned me off at first (I don't like the % sign as the prompt), but when I learned to customize it I instantly switched from bash.
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Chris
I dont know if you covered this but you might have to add /snap/bin to PATH on the last line of .zshrc .... I thought I lost sublime for a little bit
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I dont know if you covered this but you might have to add /snap/bin to PATH on the last line of .zshrc .... I thought I lost sublime for a little bit
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Nate
i consider myself a linux noob because i use nano - but surprised to find Chris uses it? Interesting you are not using Micro or VIM...
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i consider myself a linux noob because i use nano - but surprised to find Chris uses it? Interesting you are not using Micro or VIM...
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Ricardo
Could you please tell me how to install the Matrix screensaver we can see on the background? I'm using Arch... Thanks in advance...
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Could you please tell me how to install the Matrix screensaver we can see on the background? I'm using Arch... Thanks in advance...
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Ted
Back in the day, they wished they had full colour screens. Here we are in 2021, using black and green on Arch! Love it. :)
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Back in the day, they wished they had full colour screens. Here we are in 2021, using black and green on Arch! Love it. :)
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