1. 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 hompage, which is at (drumroll) http://www.zsh.org/. Briefly, zsh combines all of the (in)famous interactive power of tcsh, 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.
2. My zsh presentation
Feel free to take a peek at the slides I used for my presentation. You can also download my dodgey magicpoint files if you like.
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". 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 http://www.zsh.org/ and see the documentation, FAQs and scripts there.
3. My zsh configuration
After much prodding by Mr. Jamie Wilkinson, Jeff Waugh[1], and various others, i've made my zsh configuration files available. Hope you don't go blind.
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4. I have seen the light. How do I change my shell to zsh?
If you want to change your shell permanently to zsh, typing chsh (change shell) should work on most systems. zsh is typically located at /bin/zsh or /usr/local/bin/zsh.
Have fun!