Oh My Zsh and Oh My Posh on Azure Cloud Shell

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  • 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.

  • You likely heard of or currently use oh-my-zsh for your terminal on Linux or Mac, or WSL on Windows. It might also be possible to have heard of or currently use oh-my-posh for your PowerShell. Azure offers Azure Cloud Shell service, which uses both Bash Shell and PowerShell by default. Therefore, if you want either oh-my-zsh or oh-my-posh, or both, you should configure it by yourself.

  • oh-my-posh

    The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

  • You likely heard of or currently use oh-my-zsh for your terminal on Linux or Mac, or WSL on Windows. It might also be possible to have heard of or currently use oh-my-posh for your PowerShell. Azure offers Azure Cloud Shell service, which uses both Bash Shell and PowerShell by default. Therefore, if you want either oh-my-zsh or oh-my-posh, or both, you should configure it by yourself.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • oh-my-azure-cloud-shell

    This provides an OPINIONATED collection of scripts to set up oh-my-zsh and oh-my-posh to your Azure Cloud Shell environment

  • git clone https://github.com/justinyoo/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell.git ~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell

  • zsh-syntax-highlighting

    Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

  • Install plug-ins for oh-my-zsh. Although there are many good plug-ins, this post will install the three popular ones – zsh-completions, zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions. If you want more plug-ins, follow the steps below.

  • spaceship-prompt

    :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt

  • Install themes for oh-my-zsh. It's totally up to you which theme you're going to pick, but this post chooses either Spaceship or Powerlevel10k.

  • powerlevel10k

    A Zsh theme

  • Install themes for oh-my-zsh. It's totally up to you which theme you're going to pick, but this post chooses either Spaceship or Powerlevel10k.

  • zsh-completions

    Additional completion definitions for Zsh.

  • Install plug-ins for oh-my-zsh. Although there are many good plug-ins, this post will install the three popular ones – zsh-completions, zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions. If you want more plug-ins, follow the steps below.

  • InfluxDB

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  • zsh-autosuggestions

    Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

  • Install plug-ins for oh-my-zsh. Although there are many good plug-ins, this post will install the three popular ones – zsh-completions, zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions. If you want more plug-ins, follow the steps below.

  • Terminal-Icons

    A PowerShell module to show file and folder icons in the terminal

  • Install plug-ins for oh-my-posh, like Terminal Icons.

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