Zsh / Oh-my-zsh on Windows Git Bash

install-zsh-windows-git-bash.md

Steps:

1. Download the latest zsh package: https://packages.msys2.org/package/zsh?repo=msys&variant=x86_64

Example:

zsh-5.7.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

2. Extract the content to your git bash installation dir: Usually C:\Program Files\Git

3. Test it, open git bash and type:

zsh

4. If it start the zsh, it is working fine.

On some cases, there are stranger characters on the cmd line. It will get fixed when installing the oh-my-zsh

5. Installing oh-my-zsh, execute the following cmd on git bash

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

6. Configuring zsh as default shell Edit the ~/.bashrc file.

Add the following lines at the end of the file

# Launch Zsh
if [ -t 1 ]; then
exec zsh
fi

Close and open again the git bash.

Optional steps

7. Installing the Honukay theme

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oskarkrawczyk/honukai-iterm/master/honukai.zsh-theme -o ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/honukai.zsh-theme

8. Set it

sed -i 's/ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"/ZSH_THEME="honukai"/g' ~/.zshrc