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Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

You're reading from   Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line Command line power like you've never seen

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129184
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oh-my-zsh – your terminal never felt this good before!

Bash is probably the most commonly used shell. It has lots of features and powerful scripting capabilities, but when it comes to user interaction, zsh is better. Most of its power comes from the awesome framework oh-my-zsh. In this section, we will be installing zsh.

Let's get started with the oh-my-zsh framework and we will be looking at some basic configuration options:

  • Open the terminator and type sudo apt install zsh to install zsh, as shown in the following image:
    Oh-my-zsh – your terminal never felt this good before!

After installing it, go to this link, https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh, and follow the instructions for installing the oh-my-zsh framework. The installation process is a one-line command with curl or wget. Let's install it using both the command one by one:

Via curl:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Via wget:

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell...
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