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.
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[@Noxeus1996]

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."

[@Sensu0]

Oh-my-zsh: "Hold my Zsh."

[@sethadkins546]

@@Sensu0 Powerlevel10k: Hold my oh-my-zsh...

[@antuelle78]

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.

[@DavidSmith-ef4eh]

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

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Hehe 😀

[@ardishco]

lmao

[@sliceoflife5812]

Thats a good one.

[@mattboston74]

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.

[@AndersJackson]

Agree on this one.

[@allenravi]

you should use chsh to the change the user's shell

[@KarlMySuitcase]

When dads try to be cool, The thumbnail.

[@RichardBronosky]

Karl My Suitcase too close to home, friend.

[@KarlMySuitcase]

@@RichardBronosky The hardest moment of being a dad, is the point you realize you'll never be cool again.

[@RichardBronosky]

Karl My Suitcase luckily I’ll never realize that. WIN!

[@lingux_yt]

@@KarlMySuitcase that's BS

[@KarlMySuitcase]

@Chernobeel Since it's a joke, it's more meaningful to say "not funny!" than "disagreed".

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

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

[@paulborchardt3512]

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.

[@craigw4644]

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

[@damienw4958]

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.

[@MaidLucy]

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

[@uncreativename9936]

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

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

Luke Smith did it first...

[@TheBannanaThief]

@@hammerheadcorvette4 Apple did it first in Catalina, let the hate begin.

[@Veri7a]

LOL

[@amaxamon]

I just installed it today and already I love it!

[@johnmal5975]

Good stuff thanks Chris!

[@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.

[@Aemilindore]

WHAT THE...THIS IS LOVELY

[@David-mw8vr]

Zsh is my stuff, I love everything about it the themes are AWSOME makes everything pretty and the autocorrect is awesome as well

[@ted5045]

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

[@ayoubsaphi2130]

great video like always

[@catalinnic9356]

Do ya just dab?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Oh yeah! Lol

[@Unstable_Diffusion89]

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

[@Cloudstone86]

I agree that zsh is more productive and has more funtionality than bash, and is in some regards, objectively a better shell, however, since I work with many different linux machines every day, I prefer using bash because it's always there. Keep up the great content, enjoying your channel a lot!

[@iLiokardo]

brilliant thumbnail for the topic/content (dunno the word i wanna use)

[@davidfrischknecht8261]

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.

[@ArsenGaming]

I love ZSH a lot.

[@muddyexport5639]

Excellent!

[@deltadex7]

I may highly recommend oh-my-zsh to further power your zsh. It's awesome and has a lot of plugins (choose wisely) and beautiful prompts. PS: You can change shell using `chsh -s /bin/zsh`

[@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?

[@benstechroom]

I love zsh plus oh-my-zsh. I tried fish and liked it too, but it has some compatibility issues and can be tricky to set up. So I fell back onto zsh.

[@gwgux]

I think it's time I revisit zsh. Though in the meantime, I offer you a road sign on your never ending quest for more efficiency and better workflows. Exit 1991: vim I don't mind seeing nano, but I like your content and I like how you come up with these new methods to become more efficient with all these videos so even if you go back to nano, I'm just curious what your mind can come up with if you dive into vim.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

I've done VIM and it is faster and better. However, it does confuse quite a few newcomers, hence why I do most of my videos in nano.

[@chrs-wltrs]

Hi Chris, I'm really a fan of zsh and powerlevel10k, but I noticed something. You included instructions to install zsh-syntax-highlighting, but after the installation is done, there's no syntax highlighting in the terminal. Would you be willing to do a followup video for setting up syntax highlighting?

[@artaway6647]

you stepped up your thumbnail game lmao

[@amaterasu48]

Very true. I changed my bash to zsh recently.

[@guyclykos]

CTT drinking game: whenever Chris says productive or productivity.

[@starmorph]

incredible thumbnail

[@beardedgeek973]

I use Fish, not because I am a power user but because it is really handy for "noobs" with it's basic setup.

[@kennyp6622]

Sounds interesting. After being on bash (all my life ): ) what's the learning curve for zsh?

[@Sensu0]

Chris, it's nice to see you started using Zsh. Have you looked into Oh-my-zsh on github?

[@iLiokardo]

Ctrl-Space to complete the gray command. In Fish, you do right arrow (or Ctrl-f, forward-char) to complete that, or you can complete it by word with Alt-right arrow (Alt-f, forward-word).

[@digitalsparky]

that thumbnail is just epic... zsh is for ballers and a titus dab, such awesome :P.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Lol

[@grantsgamesandtech312]

But not the EVIL Epic Games. lol x2

[@HikariKnight]

@ChrisTitusTech you should use chsh to change the shell as it warns you if the shell path you put in does not exist so you dont lock yourself out (incase you for some reason run a setup without recovery boot) as on some distros the zsh binary is in /usr/bin and not /bin

[@jiayojames]

zsh is amazing

[@Submersed24]

I'm very confused, I installed nvm on a bash shell profile.. is there any way to move it to a zsh shell? Will it cause issues if I put some things on zsh and some on bash

[@QuimChaos]

is there a big difference between your install and using zsh-newuser-install to setup zsh?

[@MrGFYne1337357]

Fish shell 4 life. Dabs back

[@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.

[@ohio2440]

Hello Mr. Titus, i have a problem with zsh-syntax-highlighting package on Ubuntu (i know im the devil?).

[@victorprokop2240]

BASED thumbnail

[@MovadoDaSaint]

Well, im sold...

[@jefferson_santana]

Bom vídeo. :)

[@ANGRY2MATO]

In the thumbnail he looks like he’s about to take a nap

[@buumajin8850]

As a beginner what's a good language to learn bash,shell or? I'm tryn to learn on Linux

[@praetorxyn]

If you set ZDOTDIR to .config/zsh (you'll have to do it in /etc/profile or ~/.zshenv for it to load before zsh does) you can stop zsh from cluttering up your home like bash does.

[@smarfbag8714]

Best thing about Chris........he appears out of nowhere from his desk all we can know he could be plotting to overthrow Microsoft. 😂

[@ChrisTitusTech]

You need to correct the sentence from "could be" to "is" 😉

[@maxhass4709]

Fish>zsh>bash come at me

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Hehe I love the passion

[@sonnycrockett974]

Your software preferences make you a deplorable human being. Also, you're going to hell.

[@Gelo2000origami]

Just because you have the freedom to use fish, doesn't mean you should

[@adarshsingh764]

A good video but I need to think twice before hitting like. That thumbnail is questionable.

[@diago2805]

What window manager you using?

[@LefterisEl]

zsh for ever.. and add beavis and buthead messages on each terminal session :P

[@amietinen]

Editing /etc/passwd, isn't it better to use usermod when changing things like shell/home/groups/etc? (sudo usermod -s /bin/zsh titus)

[@ramaswamyvenkatachalam3407]

what linux distro are you using?

[@rishi2504]

Pls. share How you manage to get that gradient in your prompt...

[@fam1u]

Funny you made this video just after I switched to the fish shell (from bash, never really used zsh) today

[@fam1u]

@S T Can you tell me an easy way to get at least a working and beautiful zsh shell so I can continue from then on? Because I'm too lazy

[@LeonWhites_Darkspace]

Zsh is the emacs of the small, although emacs has a Shell too called eshell

[@antuacharjee9145]

Anything you mentioned is already available in fish out of the box but for zsh you have to install plugins. So fish is better

[@seanpaul7069]

Ye plug-ins for ZSH break and it slows it down overtime. I use Fish for simplicity and peace of mind experience. I don’t want to maintain all these unnecessary config files

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks

[@Oswee]

Yeah... zsh and fzf is the real thing. Also using Alacritty mostly for better font size downscaling. Looks much more crisp.

[@mulatdood]

I tried to follow the instructions. It seemed to work some. I get the timer thing. I don't get any auto complete and I don't get the color changing text.

[@iFurane]

Which distro are you using? (New to your channel)

[@busdriver1261]

Reminds me of 4DOS and the way it enhanced DOS back in the day...

[@natem7440]

i consider myself a linux noob because i use nano - but surprised to find Chris uses it? Interesting you are not using Micro or VIM...

[@SimGunther]

What's next, dish: a shell for the 2000s? Can't wait to see those linux memesters (including you, distrotube, lunduke, and Luke Smith) getting together for the cha cha slide. That would make my linux decade if that happened.

[@ok-tr1nw]

Fish gang Fish gang

[@charlesli2951]

Which operating system are you using?

[@mandeepsangwan2009]

Please make a video on TPM 2.0. There's no relevant and simple to understand video anywhere on the internet currently.

[@LampJustin]

Oh yes that would be awesome TPM + LUKS would be amazing

[@dumbllama8495]

wtf. I searched it in my Manjaro Install and zsh was already installed with all the extensions you've mentioned. It says, it was installed as a dependency for some other software.

[@WolfgangsChannel]

All my Grove Street homies use fish!

[@Jorge-xf9gs]

LOL you're here too! I love Fish in every aspect but it not being POSIX compliant gives me convulsions.

[@nickvelos9571]

What OS are you using

[@sfadhjkl4112]

The git plugin from oh-my-zsh is really nice if you use git alot.

[@baransunger4954]

do you use mac or linux? if it is linux ,which distro

[@spaceiswater6539]

If you change to zsh does that mean bash scripts will not work anymore? Cant wait to see more videos on zsh, thanks Chris.

[@commandprompt7171]

they do, but some some of the operations and conditions need to be typed differently, look up the differences online

[@spaceiswater6539]

@@commandprompt7171 That makes sense thank you so much in your reply.

[@IntoTheNothing1]

Your thumbnails are just.. splendid 😂

[@MrGFYne1337357]

Oh-my-fish > oh-my-zsh

[@zeocamo]

@Chris Titus Tech now, you are ready for ranger .....

[@ravamathias125]

can you please explain how to use "build" or "make" any other cmmands and install an application from git. thanks

[@shopflicker]

in this video what linux os you useing???

[@smhsophie]

It doesn't really matter, but knowing him probably pop os or manjaro.

[@karmavil4034]

Does anyone know how to tell Remote-Container plugin for vscode to never install zsh?

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

Soon we'll get videos of Chris Titus TV walking in the woods talking about Nerd Culture...

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Soon? I've done this a couple times now haha.

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

@@ChrisTitusTech Although funny, Let's see some content on how to use SELinux, or systemd functionality. How to manage a Linux Firewall, Wireguard set up etc. Keep up the good work !

[@springbok4015]

Zsh is default on Macs now.

[@ricardo072]

Could you please tell me how to install the Matrix screensaver we can see on the background? I'm using Arch... Thanks in advance...

[@1MinuteFlipDoc]

i dont know arch, but debian/ubuntu ... sudo apt install cmatrix

[@WRaLxW]

For arch it's just sudo pacman -S cmatrix

[@QuimChaos]

dependancies? or dependencies? (in the site)

[@iLiokardo]

whoops, typo on his part. correct spelling is "Dependencies"

[@carstenrasmussen1159]

I use csh or tcsh. Just because I have used it for like more than 20 years

[@keiichiiownsu12]

install grml-zsh-config? gives you the same defaults as the live-iso zsh-shell

[@jorgealberto1851]

Which Desktop Environment was used on this video?

[@maximchintalov8387]

I think he uses MATE with Awesome WM

[@julianbarbosa6415]

can you run zsh on vscode terminal

[@MegaManNeo]

I'm still ignoring the shell as good as possible. However, as much as I still think Ubuntu has pretty good defaults for their .bashrc, the short time window that I actually used ZSH with omg-my-zsh scripts, my comfort level on the term actually felt higher than with default BASH, That said, you most certainly didn't do the wrong step.

[@gabrielwilliams6373]

When you don't pimp your nano.

[@yvrelna]

Easier and safer way to change your shell, rather than editing /etc/passwd directly, is to run `chsh`. Additionally, with don't need sudo/root permission to change your own shell.

[@jasvanaarde9512]

zsh definitely for ballers