This one is a quick note on zsh. I have recently decided to download this awesome tool to make my terminal look great (and get some useful plugins as well). I mean, together with the Dracula theme, it’s just 👌👌👌

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So, when I was getting this error on my screen, things were not so appealing to me…

  •   [oh-my-zsh] Insecure completion-dependent directories detected:
  (...)

  [oh-my-zsh] For safety, we will not load completions from these directories until
  [oh-my-zsh] you fix their permissions and ownership and restart zsh.
  [oh-my-zsh] See the above list for directories with group or other writability.

  [oh-my-zsh] If the above didn't help or you want to skip the verification of 
  [oh-my-zsh] insecure directories you can set the variable ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX to 
  [oh-my-zsh] "true" before oh-my-zsh is sourced in your zshrc file.

Naturally, I googled this error and tried every highest rated answer crossing my way. But none worked!

So. Let’s change the approach, let’s do what the message says. Add a line before sourcing zsh…

  •   ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX ="true"

  source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

  ...

Well, that didn’t work. Do you know why? 🤔

This one did the trick though…

  •   ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX="true"

  source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

  ...

Can you spot the difference? A whitespace after the ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX keyword! A whitespace! 🤦

Kids, don’t forget whitespaces are important in bash.