ZDOTDIR

ZDOTDIR

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,
	According to the man pages, ZDOTDIR is the directory used by zsh
	to search for shell startup files(.zshrc etc).

	But, what is the ideal place to define this variable?? I would
	really like to do it in .zshrc, but I cannot since zsh uses it
	to find where .zshrc is.

	Thanks for any help.

Shao.

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Re: ZDOTDIR

[V. L. Simpson]

>>>>> "Shao" == Shao Zhang <shao@shaoz.dhs.org> writes:

    Shao> Hi, According to the man pages, ZDOTDIR is the directory
    Shao> used by zsh to search for shell startup files(.zshrc etc).

    Shao> 	But, what is the ideal place to define this variable??
    Shao> I would really like to do it in .zshrc, but I cannot since
    Shao> zsh uses it to find where .zshrc is.

    Shao> 	Thanks for any help.

    Shao> Shao.
Put it in $HOME/.zshenv
Heres mine as an example

#!/bin/zsh
ZDOTDIR=~/.zshell
export X11HOME=/usr/X11
export TEXHOME=/usr/share/texmf

path=(~/bin .)
path=($path /bin /usr/bin)
path=($path $X11HOME/bin /usr/local/bin)
path=($path $TEXHOME/bin)

Vance

Re: zdotdir

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 03/10/2014 04:32 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Just create symbolic links:
> 
> cd $ZDOTDIR
> for dotfile in zshenv zshrc zprofile zlogin; ln -s $dotfile .$dotfile
> 
> If for some reason you don't want to use symlinks, you can instead do
> 
> cd $ZDOTDIR
> for dotfile in zshenv zshrc zprofile zlogin
>   print "source \$ZDOTDIR/$dotfile" > .$dotfile
> 
> but that will print errors about missing files if you don't create all
> four of the dot-less ones, which the symlink approach will not.

Not fancy, but will do ;)
Thanks, didn't think about this.

Re: zdotdir

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 10, 12:51pm, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
}
} However, I would like then the files not to have a leading dot, so I
} could just have
} 
} ~/.zsh/zprofile like in /etc/.
} 
} Is it possible?

Just create symbolic links:

cd $ZDOTDIR
for dotfile in zshenv zshrc zprofile zlogin; ln -s $dotfile .$dotfile

If for some reason you don't want to use symlinks, you can instead do

cd $ZDOTDIR
for dotfile in zshenv zshrc zprofile zlogin
  print "source \$ZDOTDIR/$dotfile" > .$dotfile

but that will print errors about missing files if you don't create all
four of the dot-less ones, which the symlink approach will not.

Re: zdotdir

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 03/10/2014 01:01 PM, Aaron Kaufman wrote:
> You can use 'source' to source any file name.
> 
> For example: source $HOME/.zsh/zprofile and so on.
> I hope that helps.

The only hook I have I zshenv, I cannot source the other files and get
the same effect from there.

Re: zdotdir

[Aaron Kaufman]

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You can use 'source' to source any file name.

For example: source $HOME/.zsh/zprofile and so on.
I hope that helps.
On Mar 10, 2014 4:55 AM, "Yuri D'Elia" <wavexx@thregr.org> wrote:

> I recently decided to move all my config files (.zshrc, .zprofile, etc)
> to ~/.zsh/, so in my ~/.zshenv I set:
>
> ZDOTDIR=~/.zsh
>
> However, I would like then the files not to have a leading dot, so I
> could just have
>
> ~/.zsh/zprofile like in /etc/.
>
> Is it possible?
>
>

zdotdir

[Yuri D'Elia]

I recently decided to move all my config files (.zshrc, .zprofile, etc)
to ~/.zsh/, so in my ~/.zshenv I set:

ZDOTDIR=~/.zsh

However, I would like then the files not to have a leading dot, so I
could just have

~/.zsh/zprofile like in /etc/.

Is it possible?