Install Zsh For Mac

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ZSH is my favorite shell; it offers nice features like autocomplete with menus, remote autocomplete, commands correction, etc.

Install ZSH is easy using homebrew, the only thing we have to do is use this command in the terminal:

Now to make ZSH the default shell we have to add the ZSH executable to the end of this file /etc/shells, like this:

Note: you need root permissions to edit the /etc/shells file.

Once we modified the file, we have to insert this command in the terminal to change the shell for the current user from BASH to ZSH:

And that is all we have to repeat the las step for all users or specify the username in the end:

From OS X Scientific Computing

ZSH comes with OS X, so you don't need to install anything

Ibm client access 7.1 64 bit. The good news is that you don't have to install zsh. The only thing you have to do to become a full-fledged zsh user is to issue the following command:

That's it. Then when you start a new login shell, it will start in zsh. If you need to go back, just issue the same command but with bash or tcsh substituting for zsh.

If you want to install a newer version of zsh

Installing with fink

1. You need to be using the 'unstable' branch of Fink. cf How to Activate the Unstable Branch
2. Decide whether or not you want multibyte support (you may want this if you need to use non-ascii characters). Then issue the command

or

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Installing manually

You can get the latest zsh from ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/ . It is probably easiest to do the following. Make sure you are using the latest version. This is an example, and the version number may become obsolete soon:

I like to move fink out of the way temporarily to ensure it only links to system libraries, i.e.,

install zsh as above

If you become a zsh geek, you will enjoy customizing your environment. I've made a set of zsh templates to help facilitate this sort of recreational activity. I've tried to make it general enough that it will encourage customization. I've put a lot of specific functionality for OS X into it, and also for the X-ray crystallographic community (which you can omit without effort).

What is this for?

For a more detailed explanation, please see my WTF is this? page.

If you want to give this a try, there are two ways to do this:

If you are using the system's default zsh or manually-compiled zsh

If you have installed zsh with Fink

If you are using /sw/bin/zsh as your zsh shell, then all you need to do is to issue the command

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