Zsh with persistent config, history and oh-my-zsh

Hi guys!

I put together my zsh setup yesterday, maybe someone will find it useful.

It has:

• oh-my-zsh

• history

• zsh-autosuggestions

• zsh-syntax-highlighting

Steps

1. First enable zsh with Nerd Pack, if you haven't already.

2. Install User Scripts plugin

3. Edit your /boot/config/go file and put this in the end:

# Install Oh-My-Zsh
HOME="/root"
sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

4. Create your .zshrc file at /boot/config/extra/.zshrc

export ZSH="/root/.oh-my-zsh"

ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

DISABLE_UPDATE_PROMPT="true"

HISTSIZE=10000
SAVEHIST=10000
HISTFILE=/root/.cache/zsh/history

plugins=(
  zsh-autosuggestions
  zsh-syntax-highlighting
)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# User configurations

alias l='ls -lFh'     #size,show type,human readable
alias la='ls -lAFh'   #long list,show almost all,show type,human readable

5. Create a new script named "zsh" in user scripts and set it to "At Startup of Array"

6. Edit the script you just created /boot/config/plugins/user.scripts/scripts/zsh/script

#!/bin/bash

HOME=/root
OH_MY_ZSH_ROOT="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh"
ZSH_CUSTOM="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom"
OH_MY_ZSH_PLUGINS="$ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins"
OH_MY_ZSH_THEMES="$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes"

mkdir -p $OH_MY_ZSH_PLUGINS
mkdir -p $OH_MY_ZSH_THEMES

# Install zsh-autosuggestions
if [ ! -d "$OH_MY_ZSH_PLUGINS/zsh-autosuggestions" ]; then
        echo "  -> Installing zsh-autosuggestions..."
        git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions $OH_MY_ZSH_PLUGINS/zsh-autosuggestions
else
        echo "  -> zsh-autosuggestions already installed"
fi

# Install zsh-syntax-highlighting
if [ ! -d "$OH_MY_ZSH_PLUGINS/zsh-syntax-highlighting" ]; then
        echo "  -> Installing zsh-syntax-highlighting..."
        git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $OH_MY_ZSH_PLUGINS/zsh-syntax-highlighting
else
        echo "  -> zsh-syntax-highlighting already installed"
fi

chmod 755 $OH_MY_ZSH_PLUGINS/zsh-autosuggestions
chmod 755 $OH_MY_ZSH_PLUGINS/zsh-syntax-highlighting

chsh -s /bin/zsh

# Remove oh-my-zsh default .zshrc
rm /root/.zshrc

# Make sure the necessary directories are existing
mkdir -p /root/.cache/zsh/
mkdir -p /boot/config/extra/

# Make sure history file exists
touch /boot/config/extra/history

# Symlink .zshrc and history files
cp -sf /boot/config/extra/.zshrc /root/.zshrc
cp -sf /boot/config/extra/history /root/.cache/zsh/history

7. Reboot your server and you should now have zsh setup

You can of course also run the scripts manually first and create the .zshrc in your /root/ to try it out before rebooting.

Edit: Formatting