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iTerm2 opens tab with different profile than the default
I have a specific profile set as my default in iTerm2. For some weird reason, when I open a new tab using the Shell > New Tab menu item, iTerm2 opens the tab with the correct profile. I get the ...
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local zsh history on up-arrow, global zsh-history on ctrl-R [closed]
I am looking for a very specific behavior in my Zsh terminals.
I have multiple terminal windows open at the same time.
On each terminal window, if I hit the up arrow, I'd like for it to go up through ...
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Extremely slow Terminal startup on macOS Sequoia (M3 Mac Pro) [closed]
Problem
On my new M3 Mac Pro (36 GB RAM) running macOS Sequoia 15.3.2, launching a new interactive shell in both the built‑in Terminal.app and the GPU‑accelerated Ghostty takes orders of magnitude ...
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How to modify Terminal script that renames all items in folder, to rename all items in subfolder?
I have this basic Terminal script that iterates through a folder, finds the first instance of any "_" character, and renames the file using the text that occurs after that first underscore.
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zsh completion with arguments that start with a colon
I'm trying to create a completion for a custom tool that has somewhat strange command/option syntax. It accepts several normal options with both single- and double dash, but also accepts arguments of ...
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How to correctly install and set up path configurations for python and pip?
I have multiple versions of python and pip installed. Using python3 in the terminal runs python 3.9.6, whereas pip runs python 3.12.9; so, I can use pip3 to install a package (for example, newtworkx), ...
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Set zsh as default shell for Lando
I have installed zsh and oh-my-zsh in my Docker image that I use for Lando, but I can't seem to change the default shell upon entering it with lando ssh.
Oh-my-zsh is being installed with the CHSH=yes ...
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How to completely detach a process when running a package.json script VSCode?
The problem
As part of automating away the tedious bits of React Native development I'm trying to run and detach the Android emulator as part of a package.json script when I start a development build ...
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Specific new alias failing while existing works (even after restart)
During some cleanup on macOS Monterey, uninstalled and reinstalled gshuf. Aliased shuf to gshuf.
The line from zshrc:
alias shuf='gshuf'
I have a tool for my music with these three lines as the total ...
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How can I make Zsh autocomplete in the middle of a word (like Bash)? [closed]
In Bash, when I press in the middle of a word, it suggests completions based on the text up to the cursor, and if I select one, it replaces the current word rather than appending to it or leaving any ...
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Mix _arguments and _values in zsh autocomplete script
I have a command with a very structured input like
cmd --help
cmd A -flagA1 X
cmd A -flagA2 Y
cmd B -flagB1 Z
Where X,Y,Z are fixed values and depend on whether A or B is enabled.
Ideally, I'm trying ...
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Is there a way to make new variables to be scoped locally by default in zsh?
Is there a way to make new variables to be scoped locally by default in zsh?
I was thinking something like this:
setopt magic_local_opt;
x=1
function foo {
x=2
}
echo $x
and then end goal would ...
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zsh script command not finding ruby gem
I'm trying to write a simple .zsh script to start my webservers upon computer boot.
This works well:
#!/bin/zsh
cd /Users/me/Sites/Vue/mysite && npm run dev &
But this doesn't work:
#!/...
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RANDOM is not random when used inside a function in bash
I am pretty new to bash scripting and I'm facing a behavior I can't explain.
I need to create random plate numbers, however the plate generated from the function I wrote always creates the same plate ...
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.zshrc script on MacOS no longer prompts for input at Terminal startup, but it does when manually "sourced"?
For a long time, I've had a simple script in my .zshrc file on MacOS that will fetch some values from BitWarden (using the Bitwarden CLI) to set them as environment variables. For this, the script ...
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