Aye aye command line

Although I had spent a lot of time on the command line at age 12 to get Quake 3 and my Nvidia Geforce graphics card running on Linux, this tool was completely forgotten during my adolescence. I worked with Windows – and sometimes DOS – but basically with a GUI. For some years now, the command line has celebrated an unexpected comeback in my life as a historian of technology and computer scientist. Without it, I did not want to be anymore. 🥰

Set up my favourite shell ZSH

Install zsh

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
brew install zsh

sudo apt install curl git zsh

Install oh my zsh, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-completions and zsh-syntax-highlighting

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:=~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-completions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

configure it using nano (or vim)

nano ~/.zshrc

make it look like this

for Linux comment brew and osx and uncomment debian

# Which plugins would you like to load?
# Standard plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*
# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
plugins=(
  brew
  composer
  # debian
  gem
  git
  bundler
  docker
  dotenv
  macos
  pip
  python
  rake
  rbenv
  ruby
  rsync
  zsh-autosuggestions
  zsh-completions
  zsh-syntax-highlighting
)

Now learn to use it with the Missing Semester