Re: Using a separate config file, without disturbing the system's

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Ligesh wrote:
>  If you want zsh to parse your custom configuration file in the non-interacti
> ve mode, currently it seems, the only way is to add it to .zshenv file. Now I
>  want to start a session with a completely different configuration file and s
> tay in that config file till the end of the session.

% mkdir ~/zdotdir
% echo "echo Wow, I just used the alternative .zshrc" >~/zdotdir/.zshrc
% ZDOTDIR=~/zdotdir zsh
Wow, I just used the alternative .zshrc
% printenv ZDOTDIR
/home/pws/zdotdir

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