Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "This alias changes the behavior of ls by calling it with the color flag every time you type it, instead of using its more vanilla version."

A block of code is set as follows:

zstyle ':completion:*:descriptions' format '%B%d%b'
zstyle ':completion:*:messages' format %d
zstyle ':completion:*:warnings' format 'No matches for: %d'

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

Any command-line input or output is ...