Introduction
This is a guide for updating to Z Shell on macOS.
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From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell
Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.
Announced in June and released in October 2019, macOS Catalina has adopted Zsh as the default shell, replacing Bash.
Command not found
While it's optional to use Z shell if you choose to do so you might hit the following issue when starting a terminal:
/Users/rgange/.mgnl/mgnl:71: command not found: complete
Fix the issue
This issue exists on macOS Catalina which currently has issues with Java.
Performing these steps will also work on Mojave even though it does not suffer from the issue.
From the command line, install nvm.
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.2/install.sh | bash
- Create a copy of your current .bash_profile to create .zprofile.
In the file .zprofile, add the following code before:
source ~/.mgnl/mgnl
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm [ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion source ~/.mgnl/mgnl
In the file .zshrc, add the following:
autoload bashcompinit && bashcompinit
Optional: Display the username, machine name and path at the prompt. In the file .zshrc, add the following:
export PS1="%n@%m %d %% "
ResultLast login: Thu Jan 2 23:25:56 on ttys000 rgange@florida /Users/rgange %