ZSH-4.2.0

Introduction to ZSH

The ZSH package contains a command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells, ZSH most closely resembles KSH but includes many enhancements.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-4.2.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.zsh.org/zsh/zsh-4.2.0.tar.bz2
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 17 MB
Estimated build time: 0.51 SBU

ZSH dependencies

Optional

PCRE-4.5

Installation of ZSH

Install ZSH by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Configuring ZSH

Config files

There are a whole host of configuration files for ZSH including /etc/zshenv, /etc/zprofile, /etc/zshrc, /etc/zlogin and /etc/zlogout. You can find more information on these in the zsh(1) and related man pages.

Description

zsh

zsh is a shell which has command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features.