Be friend with your Terminal

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  • agnoster-zsh-theme

    A ZSH theme designed to disclose information contextually, with a powerline aesthetic

  • in this configuration file you will find among others a variable “ZSH_THEME”, it determines the theme you will apply to your terminal. There is a lot of them available, and a small google search will allow you to see them all, for my part, the agnoster theme is my favorite. So, in my .zshrc file I’ve ZSH_THEME=“agnoster”.

  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  • It’s time to make our terminal more pretty, with some colors for sample! We’ll install Oh My Zsh, a delightful open source framework for zsh shell that modernises the terminal and makes easy the configuration of it.

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  • fonts

  • But for this particular theme we need a particular font, the Ubuntu Mono. Of course you can download this font as a standard human or again use your terminal by directly clonning the project:

  • libcurl

    A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

  • First of all we need a package manager to be able to install and maintain free and open-source software as Node.JS, Python, … For that we’ll use cUrl, a tool to get some data from or to a server, so a url. For making that append we’ll run this command on our terminal:

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