My personal zshrc file

Summary

An elegant Zsh prompt with current user, machine name, virtual environment, current directory, and time (with current timezone).

Install

Prerequisites

• Zsh should be installed (v5.0.8 and newer).
• curl or wget should be installed

Basic installation

# Make sure zsh is installed (on Debian based Linux distro):
zsh --version || sudo apt install zsh
# Backup your previous version, if any:
cp ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.old.bak
# Download my zshrc:
curl -o .zshrc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VideoCurio/MyZSH/master/zshrc
# Start it:
zsh
# Source it:
source $HOME/.zshrc

Make ZSH your default shell:

sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh $USER

or modify manually the file /etc/passwd and reboot your computer.

Features

• Custom theme and color prompt.
• Red prompt if you are logged as root.
• Modern command completion system based on your shell history and command help.
• update will do a complete apt update and upgrade, and also a flatpak update. Modify it on non Debian based distro.
• history show the complete history with timestamp.
• Auto updated terminal window title.

Notes

Tested on Debian stable with Gnome default terminal.

Authors

© 2023 David BASTIEN for videocurio.com
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see GNU license.