Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 6.0

Chapter 7. Shells

ZSH-4.2.4

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

ZSH dependencies

Optional

PCRE-5.0

Installation of ZSH

Install ZSH by running the following commands: 

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

Now, as the root user: 

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.

Contents

Installed Program: zsh
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/zsh, /user/share/zsh

Short Description

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.

Last updated on 2005-02-04 20:23:15 -0700