When working with both Bash and Zsh, it can be incredibly helpful to maintain a consistent shell environment across both. Whether you’re scripting, switching between shells for different projects, or simply exploring alternatives, having the same aliases, PATH settings, and functions available in each shell saves time and reduces confusion. This guide explains a practical and portable approach for achieving this.
Before diving into the steps, you might also be interested in improving your command-line skills with articles like this trick to filter running processes with grep, or learning how to gather system hardware information via the CLI. These tools are made even more powerful when your shell environment is unified across platforms.