How do I reset and put the zshrc file back to default?

Question

/Users/ello/.zshrc:source:3: no such file or directory:  /Users/ello/Projects/config/env.sh Ello-MacBook-Pro% /Users/ello/.zshrc:source zsh: no such file or directory: /Users/ello/.zshrc:source Ello-MacBook-Pro% /Users/ello/.zshrc zsh: permission denied: /Users/ello/.zshrc Ello-MacBook-Pro% 

This has been happening, after I foolishly edited the .zshrc file. All that remains in the file now, after attempting to reset the shell, is this:

# Created by newuser for 5.3.1 # Add env.sh 

How do I undo everything, reinstall zsh, or remake the .zshrc file?

This is on macOS Sierra.

Edit: I reinstalled oh-my-zsh, leading to this message:

ain() { # Use colors, but only if connected to a terminal, and that terminal # supports them. if which tput >/dev/null 2>&1; then   ncolors=$(tput colors) fi if [ -t 1 ] && [ -n "$ncolors" ] && [ "$ncolors" -ge 8 ]; then RED="$(tput setaf 1)" GREEN="$(tput setaf 2)" YELLOW="$(tput setaf 3)" BLUE="$(tput setaf 4)" BOLD="$(tput bold)" NORMAL="$(tput sgr0)" else RED="" GREEN="" YELLOW="" BLUE="" BOLD="" NORMAL="" fi  # Only enable exit-on-error after the non-critical colorization   stuff, # which may fail on systems lacking tput or terminfo set -e  CHECK_ZSH_INSTALLED=$(grep /zsh$ /etc/shells | wc -l) if [ ! $CHECK_ZSH_INSTALLED -ge 1 ]; then printf "${YELLOW}Zsh is not installed!${NORMAL} Please install zsh  first!\n" exit  fi unset CHECK_ZSH_INSTALLED  if [ ! -n "$ZSH" ]; then ZSH=~/.oh-my-zsh fi  if [ -d "$ZSH" ]; then printf "${YELLOW}You already have Oh My Zsh installed.${NORMAL}\n" printf "You'll need to remove $ZSH if you want to re-install.\n" exit fi  # Prevent the cloned repository from having insecure permissions.  Failing to do # so causes compinit() calls to fail with "command not found:  compdef" errors # for users with insecure umasks (e.g., "002", allowing group  writability). Note # that this will be ignored under Cygwin by default, as Windows ACLs  take # precedence over umasks except for filesystems mounted with option  "noacl". umask g-w,o-w  printf "${BLUE}Cloning Oh My Zsh...${NORMAL}\n" hash git >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "Error: git is not installed" exit 1 } # The Windows (MSYS) Git is not compatible with normal use on cygwin if [ "$OSTYPE" = cygwin ]; then if git --version | grep msysgit > /dev/null; then   echo "Error: Windows/MSYS Git is not supported on Cygwin"   echo "Error: Make sure the Cygwin git package is installed and is  first on the path"   exit 1 fi fi env git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git  $ZSH || { printf "Error: git clone of oh-my-zsh repo failed\n" exit 1  }     printf "${BLUE}Looking for an existing zsh config...${NORMAL}\n" if [ -f ~/.zshrc ] || [ -h ~/.zshrc ]; then   printf "${YELLOW}Found ~/.zshrc.${NORMAL} ${GREEN}Backing up to  ~/.zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh${NORMAL}\n"; mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh; fi 

Answer 1

zsh itself does not have a default user configuration. So the default ~/.zshrc is actually no ~/.zshrc.

But as you tagged the question with oh-my-zsh I would assume that you want to restore the default oh-my-zsh configuration. For this it should be sufficient to copy templates/zshrc.zsh-template from your oh-my-zsh installation path, usually ~/.oh-my-zsh:

cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc 

You may want to backup your current ~/.zshrc beforehand. Although it may have some problems now, you still might want to look up some settings once you reverted to default.