My zsh cheat sheet

I may add new things in the future, as they come for me, if I find new features useful.

How to repeat a command n time

repeat 5 curl http://localhost/counter_add.php

How to expand recursively

If you want to find every file ending by .lisp in the folder and subfolder you can use the following syntax. Using ****** inside a pattern while do a recursive globbing.

ls **/*.lisp

Work with temp files

If you want to work on some command outputs without having to manage temporary files, zsh can do it for you with the following syntax: =(command that produces stdout).

In the example we will use emacs to open the list of the files in our personal folder.

emacs =(find ~ -type f)

This syntax will produce a temp file that will be removed when emacs exits.

My ~/.zshrc

here is my ~/.zshrc, very simple (I didn’t pasted the aliases I have), I have a 1000 lines history that skips duplicates.

HISTFILE=~/.histfile
HISTSIZE=1000
SAVEHIST=1000
setopt hist_ignore_all_dups
setopt appendhistory
bindkey -e
zstyle :compinstall filename '/home/solene/.zshrc'
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit
export LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8
export LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8