Installation Oh My Zsh 💻

Update the packages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Install zsh:

sudo apt install zsh

To check the installation of zsh: which zsh /usr/bin/zsh From the output you can see that zsh was successfully installed in /usr/bin/zsh.

Change current shell First check which shell you are currently running in with the following echo command: echo $SHELL /bin/bash The above output shows that the bash shell is currently used. To change the default shell, you must run the following chsh command:

chsh -s $(which zsh)

Log out of your current session, now when you log back into the terminal you will have a Zsh shell instead of the default bash shell.

Install and run ohmyzsh:

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh
zsh

Install zsh-syntax-highlighting from github and move it to your plugins folder:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
mv zsh-syntax-highlighting ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins

Then paste the following line into the terminal:

echo "source ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc

When entering a command in the zsh shell, it is helpful if the shell supports an autocomplete mechanism.

Install the zsh-autosuggestions plugin:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
mv zsh-autosuggestions ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins

Then add the plugins to the list of plugins in the ~/.zshrc file via vim: plugins=(git npm sudo zsh-autosuggestions vagrant)

Now apply the change by running:

source ~/.zshrc

Install fzf-tab

Important

1. make sure fzf is installed
2. fzf-tab needs to be loaded after compinit, but before plugins which will wrap widgets, such as zsh-autosuggestions or fast-syntax-highlighting

Clone this repository to your custom directory and then add fzf-tab to your plugin list.

git clone https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/fzf-tab

Add the plugin in .zshrc: plugins=(git npm sudo fzf-tab zsh-autosuggestions vagrant)

Add to the end of .zshrc:

zstyle ':fzf-tab:*' fzf-bindings-default 'tab:down,btab:up,change:top,ctrl-space:toggle,bspace:backward-delete-char,ctrl-h:backward-delete-char'

Now apply the change by running:

source ~/.zshrc

Install eza

Eza is available from deb.gierens.de. The GPG public key is in this repo under deb.asc.

First make sure you have the gpg command, and otherwise install it via:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gpg

Then install eza via:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg] http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y eza

Note: In strict apt environments, you may need to add the target: echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=...

Adding aliases

All lines should be added to the end of the zsh configuration file via nano ~/.zshrc.

Aliases for simplified configuration work

# zsh aliases
alias zshcfg="nano ~/.zshrc"
alias zshsrc="source ~/.zshrc"
alias zshplgs="cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins"

Aliases eza

# eza aliases
alias ls="eza"
alias lsl="eza --tree --level=1 --icons=always --no-time --no-user --no-permissions"
alias lsa="eza -la --git"
alias lst="eza --tree"

Aliases SSH

# SSH aliases
alias sshome="cd ~/.ssh"
alias sshcfg="nano ~/.ssh/config"

Aliases GIT

# GIT aliases
alias gitcfg="nano ~/.gitconfig"
alias gs="git status"

Aliases PM2

# PM2 aliases
alias pmlogs="cd ~/.pm2/logs"
alias pmm="pm2 monit"
alias pmlog="pm2 logs"
alias pml="pm2 list"
alias pmf="pm2 flush"
alias pmra="pm2 reload all"

Other aliases

# Other aliases
alias c="clear"

For a full list of active aliases, run alias.