Moving to ZSH

After the announcement a few weeks back↗ that Apple would be defaulting to zsh↗ in macOS Catalina I decided to take the plunge and make the switch on my current machines.

I have tried making the switch once before, but for one reason or another I ended up reverting back to Bash. This time I decided to do a little more reading up and also add the .zshrc file to my dotfiles repo↗ and move as much as my .bash_profile over as possible.

First of all, I started by installing zsh and a Powerline font↗, as I already had Homebrew and Cask installed I simply needed to run;

$ brew install zsh$ brew cask install font-source-code-pro-for-powerline

Once I had the basics installed, rather than configuring it all myself I decided to install Oh My ZSH↗ and use that as a starting point, I did that by running;

$ sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Once that had completed, I enabled the Agnoster ZSH theme↗ and enabled the Sauce Code Powerline font↗ in iTerm2, this has left me a terminal which looks like the following;

Moving over my existing aliases and more importantly, the excellent z.sh↗ which is what I use to jump around folders when on the command line seem to work without any problems — which is where I think I had problems before.

So far, no complaints — it will be an interesting week using it at work and tweaking the settings.