oh-my-zsh

🛠 Installation

1. You'll need zsh to install Oh My Zsh. Run zsh --version to check if you have it:

$ zsh --version
zsh 5.8 (x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu)

If you see command not found you don't have zsh installed. See Installing Zsh for instructions.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

NOTE: the installer will rename an existing .zshrc file to .zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh.

🎨 Theme Installation

Powerlevel10k

Powerlevel10k is the most versatile theme on market which can be rich and minimalistic at the same time. To install it use below command

1. Clone the repository:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

2. Set ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k" in ~/.zshrc.
3. Run omz reload in terminal.

Theme Powerlevel10K Configuration

To configure Powelevel10K, type p10k configure

Starship - cross-shell prompt

If you are a person, who does not want to get into theme setup rabbit hole, then Starship is for you. It is simple to install and setup. Starship also provide presents.

Installation & Configuration

1. Homebrew install

brew install starship

2. Open zsh config and add below line at the very end of .zsh file.

eval "$(starship init zsh)"

3. Presets | Starship. One simple step to install preset.

starship preset nerd-font-symbols -o ~/.config/starship.toml

4. If you still want more customisation, then simply modify ~/.config/starship.toml.

➕ Useful Plugins

1. Clone plugin to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins directory

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

2. Once cloned, add it to .zshrc file

code ~/zshrc

3. Add plugin snippet

plugins=(
  ...other plugin...
  zsh-autosuggestions
)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

4. Save .zshrc and exit the editor
5. In order to activate the changes we need to reload the .zshrc

omz reload

Here are some cool plugin I use the most

• git
• dotenv
• zsh-autosuggestions
• f-sy-h More plugin can be find here.

📝Cheat Sheet

Quick reference:

• Oh My Zsh's Command-Line Interface (CLI): omz. Run omz --help for available commands.
• To update Oh My Zsh: omz update.
• To uninstall it: uninstall_oh_my_zsh.
• To apply changes made to .zshrc: omz reload (this just runs exec zsh). Do NOT run source ~/.zshrc.

Commands

Command	Description
alias	List all aliases
mkcd	Create a new directory and change to it, will create intermediate directories as required.
take	Like mkcd, but also knows how to handle remote URLs. When given an argument that looks like a URL (something that ends in .git or .tar.(gz|bz2|xz)), download the remote resource and extract it (if necessary) into the current directory. Then change to the newly extracted/downloaded/cloned directory.
zsh_stats	Get a list of the top 20 commands and how many times they have been run.

Directory

Alias	Command
md	mkdir -p
rd	rmdir
cd / ~	cd to your home directory
..	cd ..
...	cd ../..
....	cd ../../..
.....	cd ../../../..
/	cd /
d	dirs -v (lists last visited directories)
cd +n	Switch to directory number n
-	cd to last visited directory
1	cd -1
2	cd -2
3	cd -3
4	cd -4
5	cd -5
6	cd -6
7	cd -7
8	cd -8
9	cd -9