Zsh is a UNIX 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. Zsh has command line editing, builtin spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features.
Zsh was originally written by Paul Falstad pjf@cts.com
. Zsh is
now maintained by the members of the zsh workers mailing list
zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
. The development is currently
coordinated by
Zoltan Hidvegi,
hzoli@cs.elte.hu
.
Zsh is available from the following anonymous ftp sites. The first
is the official archive site. The rest are mirror sites which are
kept frequently up to date. The sites marked with (G)
may
mirror ftp.math.gatech.edu
instead of the primary site.
ftp://ftp.cs.elte.hu/pub/zsh/
ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/packages/zsh/
ftp://ftp.ips.oz.au/pub/packages/zsh/
(G)
ftp://ftp.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr/pub/shells/zsh/
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/shells/zsh/
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/packages/zsh/
ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/unix/shell/zsh/
ftp://ftp.tohoku.ac.jp/mirror/zsh/
ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/misc/zsh/
ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/unix/shells/zsh/
ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/zsh/
ftp://ftp.net.lut.ac.uk/zsh/
ftp://ftp.math.gatech.edu/pub/zsh/
ftp://uiarchive.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/shells/zsh/
ftp://ftp.sterling.com/zsh/
(G)
ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/shells/zsh/
(G)
Known only to the recipients of the zsh-workers
mailing list.
To join the mailing lists, see section Mailing Lists.
Zsh has 3 mailing lists:
zsh-announce@math.gatech.edu
zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
To subscribe, send mail with the SUBJECT subscribe <e-mail-address>
to the associated administrative address for the mailing list.
zsh-announce-request@math.gatech.edu
zsh-users-request@math.gatech.edu
zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu
YOU ONLY NEED TO JOIN ONE OF THE MAILING LISTS AS THEY ARE NESTED.
All submissions to zsh-announce
are automatically forwarded to
zsh-users
.
All submissions to zsh-users
are automatically forwarded to
zsh-workers
.
Un-subscribing is done similarly.
If you have problems subscribing/unsubscribing to any of the mailing
lists, send mail to Richard Coleman, coleman@math.gatech.edu
.
Zsh has a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) maintained by
Peter Stephenson, P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk
. It is regularly
posted to the newsgroup comp.unix.shell
and the zsh-announce
mailing list. The latest version can be found at any of the Zsh ftp sites,
or at: http://www.mal.com/zsh/FAQ/
Zsh has a web page maintained by Mark Borges, mdb@cdc.noaa.gov
which is located at: http://www.mal.com/zsh/
.
sh(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), rc(1), bash(1), ksh(1), zshbuiltins(1), zshcompctl(1), zshexpn(1), zshparam(1), zshzle(1), zshoptions(1), zshmisc(1)
IEEE Standard for information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) -- Part 2: Shell and Utilities, IEEE Inc, 1993, ISBN 1-55937-255-9.
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