Z shell

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The Z shell (zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a powerful command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of bash, ksh, and tcsh.

Categories

• bash - scripting
• Oh My Zsh

FILES

• $ZDOTDIR/.zshenv
• $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile
• $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc
• $ZDOTDIR/.zlogin
• $ZDOTDIR/.zlogout
• ${TMPPREFIX}*
  • default is /tmp/zsh*
• /etc/zshenv
• /etc/zprofile
• /etc/zshrc
• /etc/zlogin
• /etc/zlogout
  • installation-specific - /etc is the default

Theme

agnoster.zsh-theme

https://github.com/agnoster/agnoster-zsh-theme

Using Oh My ZSH! and the agnoster theme without broken fonts

See also

• sh
• bash
• Shell

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) Z shell
• macOS: Setting up zsh, the new default shell
• Setting up a development environment on macOS in earnest (includes recommended zsh plugins)