Update Oh My Zsh Automatically Using Crontab

oldcai

2019-02-20

Server

zsh

Reason

Oh My Zsh is a cool zsh configuration set, and it’s very active, updates the code base quite often, which is good.

But when sometimes we are eager to change the world, it still asks us to update it first. That would be a little bit boring after doing these for several times.

Solution

We can update Oh My Zsh by adding this line below to crontab.

0 3 * * * zsh -c 'DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE=true && export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh && source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh && upgrade_oh_my_zsh 2>&1' >> /dev/null

Normally, crontab can be modified by command crontab -e

DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE=true

After all, we can add the line above to .zshrc to forbid Oh My Zsh asks us for update.