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How to Setup Your Mac Terminal for 2022

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How to Setup Your Mac Terminal for 2022

What’s up guys! Here is an awesome and straight forward Mac terminal setup for 2022 that I would like to share with you today!

Let’s get straight into it!

Download Iterm!

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Download the latest stable release.

https://iterm2.com/downloads.html

Now go to

Preferences → Profiles → Session → Status bar

and add status bar that you would like to use!

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Install Homebrew!

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Homebrew is the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install))"
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Install Git!

Using brew commands, we will now install and setup git.

brew install git
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git --version
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git config --global push.default simple
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git config --global user.email "<youremail>"
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git config --global user.name "<yourname>"
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git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"
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Oh-my-zsh

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ohmyz.sh

Run the following commands

brew install zsh
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zsh --version
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chsh -s $(which zsh)
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brew install curl
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sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
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Install powerlevel10k

I recommend installing via Homebrew

  • Install via Homebrew 
brew install romkatv/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k
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echo "source $(brew --prefix)/opt/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme" >>~/.zshrc
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  • Install Manually 
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ~/powerlevel10k
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echo 'source ~/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme' >>~/.zshrc
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  • open ~/.zshrc file and look for the ZSH_THEME and apply changes 
ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"
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  • run 
 p10k configure
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This command will guide you through various configurations that you would like to setup for your overall terminal look.

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Final Result

This can be the final result of your Terminal

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Basic and straightforward!
Happy Coding!

References

Homebrew: The missing package manager for macOS and Linux

ITerm: macOS Terminal Emulator

powerLevel10k

OhmyZSH

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Kabeer Ayomide •

how?

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