New shell — config zsh shell

Jon
2 min readNov 6, 2021

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things you need.

wifi

brew

basic use of osx.

iterm2

you will learn a upgraded shell is dope

install oh my zsh

direct with this link

sh -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)”

install with brew

brew install zsh

update settings

vi ~/.zshrc

Then change the ZSH_THEME with zsh-multiline/multiline theme as below.

ZSH_THEME=”agnoster”

*make sure to remove random shell at start*

*this to your .zshrc file which is your new shell settings file.*

#remove username so you don’t see long terminal

DEFAULT_USER=$USER

now open iterm2 settings and use powerlines fonts in text settings.

if you dont have them install them with commands below.

sudo apt-get install powerline fonts-powerlinegit clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git —depth=1 **cd fonts./install.shcd ..rm -rf fonts

set font type in iterm2

now source the shell to see it load. now the fonts should be looking good.

source ~/.zshrc

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Jon
Jon

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