Don't know about you...but I much prefer the likes of ZSH to Bash. Although Linux comes with Bash as default it's pretty easy to install ZSH and use that instead...

Step 1: Install and Setup ZSH

The first step before configuring the oh-my-zsh framework is to ensure we have the ZSH shell installed. Run the following on Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install zsh

Once complete you can check that it's installed via which zsh which will hopefully print out /usr/bin/zsh

Step 2: Changing the default shell

Now we have ZSH installed it's time to swap out bash for zsh run:

chsh -s $(which zsh)

You will need to enter the admin password. Once that's done log out and log back in. If you're using ZSH for the first time, open up the terminal and select option 0

Step 3: Install and configure the oh-my-zsh framework

The next step after setting up ZSH is to install and configure the oh-my-zsh framework. The simplest way to install the oh-my-zsh framework is to use the provided installer script.

However, we need to ensure we have curl and git installed before downloading the script.

sudo apt-get install git curl

Now install oh-my-zsh with the following:

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

3a. Install Spaceship via oh-my-zsh

You can pick your theme between the two below...

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt.git "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship-prompt"

Symlink spaceship.zsh-theme to your oh-my-zsh custom themes directory:

ln -s "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship-prompt/spaceship.zsh-theme" "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship.zsh-theme"

Set ZSH_THEME="spaceship" in your .zshrc. - If you want to use Spaceship

3c. Installing ZSH highlighting & auto-completetion

ZSH highlighting

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Add plugins=(zsh-syntax-highlighting) to your plugins in your .zshrc file

ZSH auto-completion

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Add plugins=(zsh-autosuggestions) to your plugins in your .zshrc file

For all the changes to take effect you will have to log out and back in. Your termainl should now look like this:

Nioce 😎