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Zsh

zsh

A shell built for interactive use, with a scripting language to match.

Detected by zsh | macOS, Linux |www.zsh.org

Sync it zsh.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Synced6 paths, copied whole to your other machines

~/.zshenv

~/.zprofile

~/.zshrc

~/.zlogin

~/.zlogout

~/.config/zsh/directory

Stays on this machineInside a file that otherwise syncs

~/.zshrclines starting with export HOMEBREW_PREFIX=, export JAVA_HOME=

…

setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/octocat/.local/bin:$PATH"

export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/opt/homebrew"machine-local

export NVM_DIR="/Users/octocat/.nvm"

export JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@21"machine-local

export EDITOR=nvim

alias ll='ls -lah'

…

Otty splits these out before upload and puts each machine’s own back on the way down — no templates to write. The lines above come from this tool’s test fixture in the catalog.

Stays on this machineInside a file that otherwise syncs

~/.zshrclines starting with export PATH=, export NVM_DIR=

…

setopt AUTO_CD

setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/octocat/.local/bin:$PATH"machine-local

export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/opt/homebrew"

export NVM_DIR="/Users/octocat/.nvm"machine-local

export JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@21"

export EDITOR=nvim

…

Otty splits these out before upload and puts each machine’s own back on the way down — no templates to write. The lines above come from this tool’s test fixture in the catalog.

Stays on this machineInside a file that otherwise syncs

~/.zshenvlines starting with export PATH=, export ZDOTDIR=

export ZDOTDIR="/Users/octocat/.config/zsh"machine-local

export PATH="/Users/octocat/.cargo/bin:$PATH"machine-local

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Otty splits these out before upload and puts each machine’s own back on the way down — no templates to write. The lines above come from this tool’s test fixture in the catalog.

Excluded5 paths, state rather than configuration — never uploaded

~/.zsh_history

~/.zsh_sessions/directory

~/.zcompdump*pattern

~/.config/zsh/.zsh_history

~/.config/zsh/.zcompdump*pattern

Not a subtraction from the paths above: this is everything else Zsh writes in your home directory that is state, not configuration. It keeps a whole-home manager like chezmoi from sweeping those up, and it still holds if the synced paths are ever widened.

Zsh in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

export ZDOTDIR="/Users/octocat/.config/zsh"machine-local

export PATH="/Users/octocat/.cargo/bin:$PATH"machine-local

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

· ~/.zprofile Sync

…

setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/octocat/.local/bin:$PATH"

export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/opt/homebrew"machine-local

export NVM_DIR="/Users/octocat/.nvm"

export JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@21"machine-local

export EDITOR=nvim

alias ll='ls -lah'

…

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

…

setopt AUTO_CD

setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/octocat/.local/bin:$PATH"machine-local

export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/opt/homebrew"

export NVM_DIR="/Users/octocat/.nvm"machine-local

export JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@21"

export EDITOR=nvim

…

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

· ~/.zlogin Sync

· ~/.zlogout Sync

· .zsh_history Exclude

· .zcompdump* Exclude

· ~/.zsh_history Exclude

· ~/.zsh_sessions/ Exclude

· ~/.zcompdump* Exclude

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/zsh. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page. None of them splits export HOMEBREW_PREFIX= and export JAVA_HOME= for you — that part is Otty’s own sync, or a template you write by hand.