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!

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!

Install Homebrew!

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))"

Install Git!

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

brew install git

git --version

git config --global push.default simple

git config --global user.email "<youremail>"

git config --global user.name "<yourname>"

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"

Oh-my-zsh

ohmyz.sh

Run the following commands

brew install zsh

zsh --version

chsh -s $(which zsh)

brew install curl

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install powerlevel10k

I recommend installing via Homebrew

• Install via Homebrew

brew install romkatv/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k

echo "source $(brew --prefix)/opt/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme" >>~/.zshrc

• Install Manually

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ~/powerlevel10k

echo 'source ~/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme' >>~/.zshrc

• open ~/.zshrc file and look for the ZSH_THEME and apply changes

ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"

• run

 p10k configure

This command will guide you through various configurations that you would like to setup for your overall terminal look.

Final Result

This can be the final result of your Terminal

Basic and straightforward! Happy Coding!

References

Homebrew: The missing package manager for macOS and Linux

ITerm: macOS Terminal Emulator

powerLevel10k

OhmyZSH