Tired of the good ol' boring looking terminal? Do you want to try something different and funky then you should definitely try Oh-my-zsh! As developers, we can't deny the fact that the Command line terminal is part of our existence.

Oh-My-Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration. It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that will make you shout.

Prerequisites

* Disclaimer: Oh My Zsh works best on macOS and Linux.

• Unix-like operating system (macOS or Linux)

• Zsh should be installed (v4.3.9 or more recent). sudo apt-get install zsh If not pre-installed (zsh --version to confirm), curl or wget should be installed

• git should be installed

Installation

Via wget

$ sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

Via curl

$ sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Now we have zsh and oh-my-zsh installed next step is to go ahead with configuration.

THEMES

Oh-My-Zsh comes bundled with several themes located in ~/.zshrc/themes which can be enabled by adding the name of the theme in the ~/.zshrc file.

# nano ~/.zshrc
# This can be changed to whatever theme is preferred
ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

PLUGINS

Oh-my-zsh also includes a handful of plugins available to help make development faster and easier. One of my best is the fact that auto-completion works out of the box. You would not need to type a whole command just hitting tab helps by suggesting possible command related to your needs.

Another awesome thing to try is the zsh-syntax-highlighting This package provides syntax highlighting for the shell zsh. It enables highlighting of commands whilst they are typed at a zsh prompt into an interactive terminal. This helps in reviewing commands before running them, particularly in catching syntax errors.

Tip 💡

You can easily switch between bash and zsh by running this command

# switching from zsh to bash
exec bash

# switching from bash to zsh
exec zsh

There you go, I hope after reading this you switch from whatever shell you were using to zsh and also try out oh-my-zsh they are both awesome.🚀

Feel free to share your comments and thoughts.

Originally posted at giftegwuenu.com