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Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh

by Gaston Festari

January 2014

Beginner

132 pages

2h 45m

English

Packt Publishing

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What this book covers

Downloading the example codeErrataPiracyQuestions
Installing zshInstalling on LinuxInstalling on OS XCompiling from source
Making zsh your login shellShell optionsThe startup files
The prompt commandCustomizing the promptUsing escape sequencesShell state optionsLogin information optionsDirectory optionsDate and time optionsText formatting optionsConditional expressionsPutting it all together
Working with aliasesQuoting charactersSingle and double quoting aliasesGlobal aliasesHashesPutting it all together
Parameter expansionCommand substitutionArithmetic expansionBrace expansion
History expansionHistory substitutionMore useful options
Zsh line editorGetting to know ZLEWorking with keymapsBasic editingGoing back and forth with wordsYanking and transposing textRevisiting history
ZLE-related optionsDefining your own keymaps
Defining your own widgetsSpecial variablesYour first function
Multiline editingPutting it all together
Quoting your stringsDouble quotes
Globbing with the starsQuestions for any single characterBrackets for a sequence of charactersUsing safer ranges on your scriptsAvoiding charactersHandling mismatches
Special patternsRecursive searchingAlternate patternsNumeric rangesRevisiting the caret operatorThe tilde operatorGlob qualifiersTimestamp qualifiersFile size qualifiers
Getting started with completionGetting assertive with zstyle
CompletersIgnoring matches
The path of the function
Main resources
Directory substitutionMagic spaceRandom numberszcalcChange and list directory contentsFinding your path through commands
zsh-loverszsh-usersoh-my-zshPreztoExplain ShellYour dotfiles

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