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service

service marks a plugin or snippet as a Zinit service — a process that runs in the background in a single Zsh instance across all open shells.

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zi ice service
zi light zdharma-continuum/zservice-transfer.sh

Services are managed by Zinit’s service subsystem. Only one instance of a given service runs at a time across all Zsh sessions. The service can be controlled via zinit srv {service-id} [stop|start|restart|next|quit].

See the zservice-* repositories for available service plugins.

Terminal window
zi ice service
zi light zdharma-continuum/zservice-transfer.sh
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