ZSH | A Better Shell

ZSH | A Better Shell
Many use the built-in BASH and I have for a long time, but after just recently switching to ZSH I didn't realize how fantastic it is. Once you customize and add plugins, it becomes the most powerful shell out there. I couldn't imagine life without it now.

[Noxeus]

zsh is neat and all but please don't make any more dabbing thumbnails.

[SupaShang]

Linux: "I can make you more productive."
Zsh: "Hold my bash."

[DavidSmith-efeh]

"Nano" into that? What did he mean by this? I guess it's a mispronunciation of "vim".

[KarlMySuitcase]

When dads try to be cool, The thumbnail.

[mattboston]

Use “chsh” to change your shell. Never edit your passwd or shadow files with nano. If you need to learn about “vipw“. It’s like “visudo“ where it checks the file before saving.

[antuelle]

Oh-My-Zsh has several advantages when you are a ZSH power user. Keeps your plugins updated, support for powerline, etc.
I use these plugins:

git kubectl helm docker docker-compose zsh-navigation-tools zsh-autosuggestions vim-interaciton vagrant ubuntu virtualenv rsync python systemd ssh-agent terraform.
Nice video for new users to ZSH.

[uncreativename]

First Luke Smith and now Chris Titus, why do all these Linux YouTubers keep dabbing on me?

[damienw]

I switched to zsh on my main computer and I am loving it. The only feature I miss is the alt-. to get your last argument from your last command going back in commands.

[MrLeeFergusson]

zsh followed by ohmyzsh and the spaceship theme are always the first things i install on a system, if you code at all its an amazing little setup

[noctreik]

Tip for you:
alias l='ls -lFh --color=auto --group-directories-first'


Looks more organised.

[Unstable_Diffusion]

I've not watched this video yet, I'm here for the dab.

[ted]

Back in the day, they wished they had full colour screens. Here we are in 2021, using black and green on Arch! Love it. :)

[kekePower]

One thing that popped out for me was when you edited (really?) /etc/passwd instead of using chsh... Isn't that why we have these tools?

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Chris. I have been thinking of zsh on and off for some time now.

[craigw]

Liking it, thanks for doing all the work for us!

[paulborchardt]

Thanks Chris... I had completely forgotten about ZSH. I used it many years ago followiing my long time use of CSH and I was hooked on it.

[davidfrischknecht]

An even easier way to change your default shell is using the "chsh" command. For Ubuntu-based distros it's in the "util-linux-user" package if it's not already installed.

[MaidLucy]

Thank you! This was the video I needed to get comfy in zsh!

[baardkopperud]

Isn't ex an already existing command? ex was the underlying line-based editor (like ed) that the vi editor wrapped around. If you got a vi clone like vim or elvis installed, ex is a symbolic link that cause it to emulate ex instead of vi.

[amaxamon]

I just installed it today and already I love it!