Set Up a Beautiful and Powerful Zsh for Linux | Linux

2023/12/16
linux

Zsh is beloved by engineers for its auto-completion feature. Here we use the popular oh-my-zsh to walk through the installation and configuration of Zsh step by step!

# Install zsh
sudo apt install zsh

Steps

1. Install zsh

sudo apt install zsh

2. Install oh-my-zsh

oh-my-zsh Official
  1. Install
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  1. Set it as the default shell, so that zsh will be used as our default shell from now on

3. Set up useful zsh plugins (autosuggestions plugin)

Autosuggestions Plugin - Official

# Navigate to the oh-my-zsh plugins directory
cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/

# Clone the plugin we need
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git

# Add the plugin name in our configuration file
sudo vim ~/.zshrc

##############################
 plugins=(
   git
   zsh-autosuggestions
)
##############################

# Reload our zshrc
source ~/.zshrc
# Now we should see command autosuggestions