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2 Introduction
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. It does not provide compatibility with POSIX or other shells in its default operating mode: see the section Compatibility.
Zsh has command line editing, builtin spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features.
2.1 Author
Zsh was originally written by Paul Falstad <pf@zsh.org>
. Zsh is now
maintained by the members of the zsh-workers mailing list
<zsh-workers@zsh.org>
. The development is currently coordinated by
Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>
. The coordinator can be contacted at
<coordinator@zsh.org>
, but matters relating to the code should
generally go to the mailing list.
2.2 Availability
Zsh is available from the following HTTP and anonymous FTP site.
ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/
https://www.zsh.org/pub/
)
The up-to-date source code is available via Git from Sourceforge. See
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zsh/
for details. A summary of
instructions for the archive can be found at
http://zsh.sourceforge.net/
.
2.3 Mailing Lists
Zsh has 3 mailing lists:
-
<zsh-announce@zsh.org>
Announcements about releases, major changes in the shell and the monthly posting of the Zsh FAQ. (moderated) -
<zsh-users@zsh.org>
User discussions. -
<zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Hacking, development, bug reports and patches.
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail to the associated administrative address for the mailing list.
<zsh-announce-subscribe@zsh.org>
<zsh-users-subscribe@zsh.org>
<zsh-workers-subscribe@zsh.org>
<zsh-announce-unsubscribe@zsh.org>
<zsh-users-unsubscribe@zsh.org>
<zsh-workers-unsubscribe@zsh.org>
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.
If you have problems subscribing/unsubscribing to any of the mailing
lists, send mail to <listmaster@zsh.org>
. The mailing lists are
maintained by Karsten Thygesen <karthy@kom.auc.dk>
.
The mailing lists are archived; the archives can be accessed via the
administrative addresses listed above. There is also a hypertext
archive, maintained by Geoff Wing <gcw@zsh.org>
, available at
https://www.zsh.org/mla/
.
2.4 The Zsh FAQ
Zsh has a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), maintained by Peter
Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>
. 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.zsh.org/FAQ/
. The contact address for FAQ-related matters
is <faqmaster@zsh.org>
.
2.5 The Zsh Web Page
Zsh has a web page which is located at https://www.zsh.org/
. This is
maintained by Karsten Thygesen <karthy@zsh.org>
, of SunSITE Denmark.
The contact address for web-related matters is <webmaster@zsh.org>
.
2.6 The Zsh Userguide
A userguide is currently in preparation. It is intended to complement
the manual, with explanations and hints on issues where the manual can
be cabbalistic, hierographic, or downright mystifying (for example, the
word ‘hierographic’ does not exist). It can be viewed in its current
state at http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/
. At the time of writing,
chapters dealing with startup files and their contents and the new
completion system were essentially complete.
2.7 See Also
man page sh(1), man page csh(1), man page tcsh(1), man page rc(1), man page bash(1), man page ksh(1)
IEEE Standard for information Technology - Part 2: Shell and Utilities, IEEE Inc, 1993, ISBN 1-55937-255-9.
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