Pimp my terminal

Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.

In simple terms, Zsh is an alternative to the Bash shell which implements a lot of nice features that boost your productivity and improve your workflow. To that end, Oh My Zsh is a lightweight, open-source framework for managing those nice Zsh features - themes, plugins, aliases...

Install Requirements

apt install zsh -y
apt install curl -y
apt install git -y

Verify requirements

git --version
curl --version
zsh --version && cat /etc/shells | grep zsh #(1)!

1. These are just 2 commands that help verify Zsh is installed.

Install oh-my-zsh

yes | sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" && zsh

We use the yes command here to accept the defaults and make Zsh our net default shell

Enable plugins

#(1)!
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ${ZSH_CUSTOM:=~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting  ; \

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:=~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions ; \

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:=~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-completions

#(2)!
omz plugin enable \
copypath \
git \
dirhistory \
extract \
z \
colorize \
command-not-found \
colored-man-pages \
sudo \
zsh-syntax-highlighting \
zsh-autosuggestions \
zsh-completions

1. These plugins needed to be downloaded before enabling
2. Some plugins come pre-installed with oh-my-zsh, they just need to be enabled
3. Here we are enabling our custom plugins

Useful commands

Add these to your ~/.zshrc by using these commands:

echo 'alias ll="ls -la"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'alias cls="clear"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'DISABLE_UPDATE_PROMPT=true  # Auto update and dont ask' >> ~/.zshrc
omz reload