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Set up zsh on your Fedora system
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For some people, the terminal can be scary. But a terminal is more than just a black screen to type in. It usually runs a shell, so called because it wraps around the kernel. The shell is a text-based interface that lets you run commands on the system. It’s also sometimes called a command line interpreter or CLI. Fedora, like most Linux distributions, comes with bash as the default shell. However, it isn’t the only shell available; several other shells can be installed. This article focuses on the Z Shell, or zsh.
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Bash is a rewrite of the old Bourne shell (sh) that shipped in UNIX. Zsh is intended to be friendlier than bash, through better interaction. Some of its useful features are:
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* Programmable command line completion
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* Shared command history between running shell sessions
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* Spelling correction
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* Loadable modules
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* Interactive selection of files and folders
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Zsh is available in the Fedora repositories. To install, run this command:
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```
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$ sudo dnf install zsh
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```
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### Using zsh
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To start using it, just type zsh and the new shell prompts you with a first run wizard. This wizard helps you configure initial features, like history behavior and auto-completion. Or you can opt to keep the [rc file][1] empty:
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![zsh First Run Wizzard][2]
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If you type 1 the configuration wizard starts. The other options launch the shell immediately.
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Note that the user prompt is **%** and not **$** as with bash. A significant feature here is the auto-completion that allows you to move among files and directories with the Tab key, much like a menu:
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![zsh cd Feature][3]
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Another interesting feature is spelling correction, which helps when writing filenames with mixed cases:
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![zsh Auto Completion][4]
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## Making zsh your default shell
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Zsh offers a lot of plugins, like zsh-syntax-highlighting, and the famous “Oh my zsh” ([check out its page here][5]). You might want to make it the default, so it runs whenever you start a session or open a terminal. To do this, use the chsh (“change shell”) command:
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$ chsh -s $(which zsh)
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```
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This command tells your system that you want to set (-s) your default shell to the correct location of the shell (which zsh).
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Photo by [Kate Ter Haar][6] from [Flickr][7] (CC BY-SA).
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via: https://fedoramagazine.org/set-zsh-fedora-system/
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作者：[Eduard Lucena][a]
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选题：[lujun9972](https://github.com/lujun9972)
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[a]:https://fedoramagazine.org/author/x3mboy/
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[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_file
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[2]:https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zshFirstRun.gif
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[3]:https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zshChangingFeature-1.gif
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[4]:https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zshAutoCompletion.gif
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[5]:http://ohmyz.sh/
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[6]:https://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/
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[7]:https://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/34714051013/
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