Supercharge your Mac Terminal — iTerm, zsh, oh-my-zsh, nerd fonts and powerlevel10k

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Get the most out your Mac Terminal

Install Brew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Install iTerm

brew install iterm2

Close and remove Terminal from your dock and launch iTerm and pin it to dock

Install zsh

brew install zsh

Install oh-my-zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install theme powerlevel10k using oh-my-zsh

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git $ZSH/custom/themes/powerlevel10kadd ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k" to ~/.zshrc and savezsh

Close and restart the iTerm and you will be asked series of questions to configure powerlevel10k and follow all the prompts and choose to your preferences

Edit ~/.p10.zsh using your favorite editor (e.g. sublime) and change the following lines

typeset -g POWERLEVE9K_MODE='nerdfont-complete'typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(
os_icon
dir
vcs
prompt_char
)
typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=()

Restart the powerlevel10k configuration wizard

cd ~/
p10k configure

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Ganesh Subramanian
Ganesh Subramanian

Written by Ganesh Subramanian

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