QUESTION :
I’ve recently switched to using zsh instead of bash and I installed both zsh and oh-my-zsh. while messing with my configuration I noticed that there is a file named “.zshrc-e” in addition to the typical “.zshrc”. What’s the difference and what is .zshrc-e used for?
ANSWER :
~/.zshrc is zsh’s user configuration for interactive shells. (actually it is $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc, but HOME is used if ZDOTDIR is unset)
~/.zshrc-e has no special meaning to zsh and is not used by it. Unless, of course, you load it somewhere in ~/.zshrc. (If I had to guess, I would say it is probably just a backup/copy of ~/.zshrc, but that is easy to check.)
.zshrc-e means zshrc e(xample) file.