custom-zsh-profile.md

zshrc.md

Newer Mac OS uses ZSH instead of bash. This wiki will talk through setting it up with nice features such as autocomplete, colorized ls, git & conda aware prompts etc.

Steps

1. After upgrading to zsh, confirm you have it by typing zsh in terminal.
2. Install a framework such as Oh my zsh which will simplify the whole process. Rest of steps assume you have it running. As of today, you can install it by running

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

Restart terminal.

3. Look at available plugins and enable the ones you need. You can do so by editing the .zshrc file as

subl ~/.zshrc

Add necessary plugins (separated just by a single space or new line) to the plugins tuple. I added git pipenv pip zsh-interactive-cd. Restart terminal.

4. Add conda by pasting the following. Note you may have to edit the username accordingly. To know your username, type $ whoami and use what it returns.

# >>> conda initialize >>>
# !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
__conda_setup="$('/Users/username/anaconda3/bin/conda' 'shell.bash' 'hook' 2> /dev/null)"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    eval "$__conda_setup"
else
    if [ -f "/Users/username/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
        . "/Users/username/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
    else
        export PATH="/Users/username/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
    fi
fi
unset __conda_setup
# <<< conda initialize <<<

Restart terminal. This will prefix the env name in parenthesis before your terminal.