Becoming a command line power user with Oh My ZSH

If you’re a developer or a power user who spends a lot of time on the command line, you’ve probably heard of Oh My Zsh. Oh My Zsh is a community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It provides a lot of helpful features and makes it easy to customize your command line experience. In this blog post, we’re going to explore some of the benefits of using Oh My Zsh and how to get started.

Installation

The first step to using Oh My Zsh is to install it. You can install Oh My Zsh by running the following command in your terminal:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

This command will download and run the Oh My Zsh installation script. It will prompt you to change your default shell to Zsh, and then it will install Oh My Zsh and its default configuration.

Themes

Oh My Zsh comes with a lot of built-in themes that you can use to customize the appearance of your command line. You can list the available themes by running the following command:

ls ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/

To change your theme, open your Zsh configuration file (~/.zshrc) in a text editor and change the ZSH_THEME variable to the name of the theme you want to use. For example, to use the agnoster theme, you would set ZSH_THEME="agnoster".

Plugins