zsh
What’s zsh?
This is a talk I gave on zsh (the Z shell) at SLUG, the Sydney Linux Users’ Group. You can find more information on this great shell on the zsh homepage, which is at (drumroll) www.zsh.org . Briefly, zsh combines all of the (in)famous interactive power of tcsh and bash’s standard Bourne shell syntax, with its own most utterly crazy and useful word completion, globbing, redirection, and editing features. Once you start using it, everything else seems annoyingly … useless.
You can find a copy of my current zsh configuration files at
My zsh presentation
Feel free to take a peek at the slides that I used for my presentation, in html or MagicPoint format.
Other zsh tutorials and advocacy documents I used for my talk include:
- Paul Falstad and Bas de Bakker’s “An Introduction to the Z shell” (intro.ps). This is also on the zsh homepage.
- The FEATURES document that comes with zsh (taken from 4.0.1prerelease). This is actually a superb quick reference to all of the useful features in the Z shell.
However, you really want to drop by www.zsh.org and see the documentation, FAQs and scripts there.