Zsh

Link

https://zsh.sourceforge.io/

Resources

• Replacing the File Manager in Zsh
• Oh My Zsh - framework for managing Zsh configuration
• Wikipedia
• A Beautifully Productive Terminal Experience
• Options documentation
• sorin-ionescu/prezto - a configuration framework for Zsh

Shortcuts

Shortcut	Function
Ctrl+R	Search through the history
Ctrl+C	Stop running command

FAQ

Reminder: do not redeclare path

path is a pre-existing special zsh array tied to PATH; don’t redeclare/shadow it as an ordinary variable.

Loops

Generic form

for item in list
do
  command1
  command2
done

Generic one-liner

for item in list; do command1; command2; done

Example one-liner (show current branches)

for dir in ~/path1 ~/path2; do echo "$dir"; git -C "$dir" rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD; done