How to know what plugins are installed in my Oh My Zsh

Question

I want to install 2 Oh My Zsh plugins, but I don't know their names. My brother had also downloaded them some years ago, but he doesn't know their names either.

How can I know what Oh My Zsh plugins are installed in my brother's zsh?

BeastOfCaerbannog · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-23T11:08:19.750

I suppose that you installed Oh My Zsh by running the following command:

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

In this case, Oh My Zsh plugins are installed in the ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins directory, so running the following command will return a list of your installed plugins:

ls ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins

To enable a plugin, just add its name (as shown from the above command) in plugins=(...) in your ~/.zshrc file. From the Oh My Zsh wiki:

Enable a plugin by adding its name to the plugins array in your .zshrc file (found in the $HOME directory). For example, this enables the rails, git and ruby plugins, in that order:
plugins=(rails git ruby)

You can list the enabled plugins with:

echo $plugins

BeastOfCaerbannog · Answer 2 · 2023-11-25T20:44:02.947

There's another way of listing and enabling/disabling installed plugins using the omz command.

To list installed plugins you can run:
```
omz plugin list
```
To enable a plugin you can run:
```
omz plugin enable <plugin>
```
where <plugin> is the name of the plugin you wish to enable. For example, to enable the common-aliases plugin, you would run:
```
omz plugin enable common-aliases
```
To disable a plugin you can run:
```
omz plugin disable <plugin>
```
For example, to disable the common-aliases plugin, you would run:
```
omz plugin disable common-aliases
```

The omz command is pretty handy and can also be used to obtain information about a plugin:

omz plugin info <plugin>

For example, running omz plugin info ufw returns information about the ufw plugin:

# UFW plugin
This plugin adds completion for managing everybody's favorite Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW),
a simple interface for managing iptables. Learn more about UFW.
To use it, add ufw to the plugins array of your zshrc file:
plugins=(... ufw)

Some of the commands include:

allow &lt;port&gt;/&lt;optional: protocol&gt; add an allow rule
default set default policy
delete &lt;port&gt;/&lt;optional: protocol&gt; delete RULE
deny &lt;port&gt;/&lt;optional: protocol&gt; add deny rule
disable disables the firewall
enable enables the firewall`

For more information about omz's usage you can run:

omz --help

How to know what plugins are installed in my Oh My Zsh

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