oh-my-zsh

🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 1700+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes nearly 300 optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 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. [Moved to: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh] (by robbyrussell)

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    1 project | dev.to | 28 Nov 2023
    FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/python-311:latest # Install terraform & oh-my-zsh USER root RUN yum install -y yum-utils && \ yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/RHEL/hashicorp.repo && \ yum -y install terraform zsh && \ wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh USER 1001 # Install poetry RUN pip install poetry && \ poetry config virtualenvs.create false # Set default shell to zsh ENV SHELL /bin/zsh # Create workspace dir used by VSCode RUN mkdir /opt/app-root/src/workspace/ # Expose ports EXPOSE 4000
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    - name: Git clone oh-my-zsh ansible.builtin.command: 'git clone -c core.autocrlf=input --depth=1 https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git /home/zoliky/.oh-my-zsh' become: true become_user: zoliky when: not oh_my_zsh_dir.stat.exists
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    FROM node:18 RUN apt-get update # Install dependencies RUN apt-get install -y wget zsh git \ # Install oh-my-zsh RUN wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh \ && cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc
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