Command Line & Zsh Tips

My live configs and zsh documentation: My .dotfiles & macOS Setup — that’s where I document my zsh usage, .zshrc, themes, and setup. Use this note as a quick reference and a list of external inspiration.

My setup (dotfiles)

• Dotfiles project page — overview, structure, and quick setup.
• GitHub: mcdougald/dotfiles — Zsh (oh-my-zsh + Powerlevel10k), iTerm2 themes, Mise, Neovim, IDE themes, Brewfile, and macOS defaults.
• MacOs Setup Scripts — macOS setup scripts for git config, shell functions, and general macOS tweaks.
• **Southpawriter Good MD documentation for zshrc
• zsh-dotfiles-refactor - Modern setup with stow

For day-to-day zsh and terminal setup, start there.

macOS setup scripts

Useful references for system setup and defaults:

• Malston’s macsetup.sh — solid mac setup script: git config, shell functions, and general macOS tweaks. Compare with my dotfiles for what I use locally.
• Lucase Dotfiles - Good aliases.sh functions

Terminal (iTerm2 & SSH)

• wookayin/dotfiles — iTerm tab color for SSH — set iTerm tab color when SSH’ing so you don’t run dangerous commands on the wrong host. My own iTerm and Zsh setup is in my dotfiles.

Aliases & shell variables

Ideas for aliases and env vars (my actual aliases live in my dotfiles):

• moabukar/dotfiles — .zshrc — good AWS and git aliases.
• StarleyDev/my-terminal — .zshrc — useful variables (e.g. local IP, colors) and alias patterns.

More inspiration

Other dotfiles that influenced my dotfiles — Mathias Bynens, Paul Irish, Sindre Sorhus, Holman, Webpro — are linked from the Dotfiles project page.