Questions tagged [zsh]
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SSH connection closes as shell fails to load
I have FreeBSd running with OpenSSH. I set up everything and the connection via SSH worked perfectly. Then I decided to get rid of some not used ports and I obviously uninstalled one that was used by zsh.
When I log in I get the following:
~ # ssh…
user144447
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How to stop the shell interpolating?
I'm writing a bit of Ruby for use on the command line, but the shell is interfering too much - is there a way to turn off interpolation for the entire line? I know I can escape certain characters, but I'm looking for a blanket ban.
For example, I've…
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ian
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mirror STDOUT and STDERR to file by default
How I can accomplish STDOUT to be to logged in a file (appending), but preserving the flow (leave STDOUT to STDOUT) ?
STDOUT should work transparently, but should be logged also into a file, without messing with "tee" on each command input. Same for…
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astropanic
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Anybody knows if there is a counterpart for CTR+w , that deletes immediate words after cursor
I mean when the cursor is on the left side of the words ,I would like to remove the words on the immediate right side of it . CTR+k remove everything on the right side, i only want one word to be removed.
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Eric
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Unable to make Zsh not to suggest a fix for an alias
I have an alias for
alias tdA='todo -a'
I get the following in Zsh
tdA
zsh: correct 'tdA' to 'tda' [nyae]?
How can you make Zsh not to suggest a fix for an alias?
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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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Shell script prevent switching to other shell or escape from it
If in my automation script, I need to do something like install oh-my-zsh, I will have a .sh script like this:
#!/bin/sh
runuser -l user -c 'sh -c "$(curl -fsSL…
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xendi
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Add "sudo" to the last command line in bash
I run a command, then realize it should have been run with sudo.
In zsh I have a function so that I can hit a ^x^x and it will grab the previous line from the history and prepend sudo to it, so I can run it again.
Is it possible to do this with…
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thermans
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How to stop CentOS 7 fresh install to stop `clear` from running on exit from ssh session?
I'm finding that upon exit from an ssh session on a CentOS 7 server, it clears the screen each time. I suspect that there's a setting in /etc for the environment that is doing this.
Any ideas of what's triggering this?
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ylluminate
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zsh, zmv mass rename sub directories nothing happening on large volume of directories
I've set
autoload -U zmv
alias mmv='noglob zmv -W'
When on sample data (~20 folders with subfolders) I run
mmv images/**/advert images/**/notice
it just works as expected.
But if I run same command on real data (hundreds of thousands folders),…
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rolkos
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Trouble installing ZSH
I did the following:
yum install zsh
Then
chsh eduar
New shell [/bin/bash]: /bin/zsh
When I type:
curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | sh
I got this:
You already have Oh My Zsh installed.
You'll need to remove /home/eduar/.oh-my-zsh…
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eduartua
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zsh extended globbing to create sub directories
% zsh --version
zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0)
% ls -l
bootstrap/ local_folder/ ssh_confs/ zsh_confs/
I am trying to create a sub directory called "files" inside all the directories in my current folder.. I want to use zsh globbing…
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manish
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Trouble with name resolution when using programs like `gem` in shell
I have trouble with name resolution when using programs like gem in my shell within my office environment.
Whenever a program needs to connect to a remote host, it fails to resolve the domain name, but after a "manual resolution" e.g. via dig or…
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Felix
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zsh printf quote bug
does anyone have any idea why am I getting hit by this bug in zsh since forever?
It's like a string formatting bug of some sorts:
~% printf "%s\n" foo
" foo)foo
Basically anything that has double quotes gets interpreted in a similar manner:
~%…
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Zike
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Can't get ZSH working on CentOS
I've been using zsh for a couple of years now on Ubuntu and really like it a lot.
I've installed it on our production server as well, which is running CentOS 5.2, and it works just fine.
However, I just installed it via yum on a new VM I created to…
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tommytwoeyes
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why won't bash display the results of a 'bind -p' command?
bash refuses to give me the output of 'bind -p' when I pass it in with the -c switch:
bash -c 'bind -p'
but it works to type
bind -p
directly at the bash prompt, and it works to type something like
bash -c 'echo "hi"'
and zsh happily does…
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iconoclast
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