How to properly switch to zsh and be able to use dietpi commands

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I created a files ~/.aliases and added the following lines from the bash script you showed me,

# DietPi-Globals: dietpi-* aliases, G_* functions and variables
. /boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals || { echo -e '[\e[31mFAILED\e[0m] DietPi-Login | Failed to load DietPi-Globals. Skipping DietPi login scripts...'; return 1; }

# Aliases
# - sudo alias that allows running other aliases with "sudo": https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/424
alias sudo='sudo '
# - DietPi programs
alias dietpi-letsencrypt='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-letsencrypt'
alias dietpi-autostart='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-autostart'
alias dietpi-cron='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-cron'
alias dietpi-launcher='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-launcher'
alias dietpi-cleaner='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-cleaner'
alias dietpi-morsecode='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-morsecode'
alias dietpi-sync='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-sync'
alias dietpi-backup='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-backup'
alias dietpi-bugreport='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-bugreport'
alias dietpi-services='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-services'
alias dietpi-config='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-config'
alias dietpi-software='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-software'
alias dietpi-update='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-update'
alias dietpi-drive_manager='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-drive_manager'
alias dietpi-logclear='/boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-logclear'
alias dietpi-survey='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-survey'
alias dietpi-explorer='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-explorer'
alias dietpi-banner='/boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-banner'
alias dietpi-justboom='/boot/dietpi/misc/dietpi-justboom'
alias dietpi-led_control='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-led_control'
alias dietpi-wifidb='/boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-wifidb'
alias dietpi-optimal_mtu='/boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-optimal_mtu'
alias dietpi-cloudshell='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-cloudshell'
alias dietpi-nordvpn='G_DIETPI-NOTIFY 1 "DietPi-NordVPN has been renamed to DietPi-VPN. Please use the \"dietpi-vpn\" command."'
alias dietpi-vpn='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-vpn'
alias dietpi-ddns='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-ddns'
alias cpu='/boot/dietpi/dietpi-cpuinfo'
# - Optional DietPi software aliases
[[ -d '/mnt/dietpi_userdata/sonarr' || -d '/mnt/dietpi_userdata/radarr' || -d '/mnt/dietpi_userdata/lidarr' ]] && alias dietpi-arr_to_RAM='/boot/dietpi/misc/dietpi-arr_to_RAM'
command -v kodi > /dev/null && alias startkodi='/boot/dietpi/misc/start_kodi'
[[ -f '/usr/games/opentyrian/run' ]] && alias opentyrian='/usr/games/opentyrian/run'
[[ -f '/mnt/dietpi_userdata/dxx-rebirth/run.sh' ]] && alias dxx-rebirth='/mnt/dietpi_userdata/dxx-rebirth/run.sh'
# - 1337 moments ;)
alias 1337='echo "Indeed, you are =)"'

# "G_DIETPI-NOFITY -2 message" starts a process animation. If scripts fail to kill the animation, e.g. cancelled by user, terminal bash prompt has to do it as last resort.
[[ $PROMPT_COMMAND == *'dietpi-process.pid'* ]] || PROMPT_COMMAND="[[ -w '/tmp/dietpi-process.pid' ]] && rm -f /tmp/dietpi-process.pid &> /dev/null && echo -ne '\r\e[J'; $PROMPT_COMMAND"


# DietPi-Login: First run setup, autostarts and login banner
# - Prevent call if $G_DIETPI_LOGIN has been set. E.g. when shell is called as subshell of G_EXEC or dietpi-login itself, we don't want autostart programs to be launched.
[[ $G_DIETPI_LOGIN ]] || /boot/dietpi/dietpi-login

Then I added source "$HOME/.aliases" somewhere around the top of the ~/.zshrc file and restarted. It seems to work fine. I am even getting the intro message showing temperature etc. I couldn’t get the last few blocks of code to work. I guess it’s good enough for now. Thanks for explaining.

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