Eason Li

Spice Up Your Terminal With Oh My Zsh

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

In this blog post, I will guide you to install Oh My Zsh on your computer. Oh My Zsh allows you to customize your terminal prompt.

Pre-requisites:

  • MacOS or Linux because Oh My Zsh works best on Unix-based systems (WSL will work)
  • curl or wget

Install zsh:

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt install zsh

Fedora:

sudo yum install zsh

Set zsh as default shell:

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Note: For some systems, you need to log out and log in again to take effect.

Install Oh My Zsh:

curl:

curl -L https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh | sh

wget

wget https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O - | sh

Selecting A Theme:

Robbyrussell is the default theme that comes with Oh My Zsh. To change the theme, you need to edit the ~/.zshrc in your home directory. Here is the theme list: Github

Update Oh My Zsh:

Run omz update to update Oh My Zsh.

For more information:

For more information, take a look at their Github page: Github

Thank you for reading!!

This blog post is writtin by Eason Li and edited by Google Bard.