# The Z Shell Manual - Zsh Manual

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- 1 The Z Shell Manual
  - 1.1 Producing documentation from zsh.texi

# 1 The Z Shell Manual

This document has been produced from the texinfo file `zsh.texi`, included in the `Doc` sub-directory of the Zsh distribution.

## 1.1 Producing documentation from zsh.texi

The texinfo source may be converted into several formats:

- The Info manual
  The Info format allows searching for topics, commands, functions, etc. from the many Indices. The command ‘`makeinfo zsh.texi`’ is used to produce the Info documentation.

- The printed manual
  The command ‘`texi2dvi zsh.texi`’ will output `zsh.dvi` which can then be processed with dvips and optionally gs (Ghostscript) to produce a nicely formatted printed manual.

- The HTML manual
  An HTML version of this manual is available at the Zsh web site via:

  `http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/`.

  (The HTML version is produced with texi2html, which may be obtained from `http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/`. The command is ‘`texi2html –output . –ifinfo –split=chapter –node-files zsh.texi`’. If necessary, upgrade to version 1.78 of texi2html.)

For those who do not have the necessary tools to process texinfo, precompiled documentation (PostScript, dvi, PDF, info and HTML formats) is available from the zsh archive site or its mirrors, in the file `zsh-doc.tar.gz`. (See Availability for a list of sites.)

This document was generated on February 15, 2020 using texi2html 5.0.
Zsh version 5.8, released on February 14, 2020.