Download location (HTTP): http://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-4.0.6.tar.bz2 Download location (FTP): ftp://ftp.zsh.org/zsh/zsh-4.0.6.tar.bz2 Version used: 4.0.6 Package size: 1.6 MB Estimated Disk space required: 14 MB Estimated build time: 2.31 SBU |
The zsh package contains the zsh shell. zsh is 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.
Install zsh by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install |
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.
The zsh package contains 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.