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zsh or The Z Shell is one of the newest shells with an enhanced command line editing interface.
Installation
=RedHat's
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Find zsh-*.rpm in your distribution or simply search via [http://rpm.pbone.net/ RPM Search] and download the file.
run as root
rpm -ihv zsh-*.rpm
=Debian
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zsh can be installed from Debian's main repository, using your APT front end of choice.
For example, run as root:
apt-get install zsh
or
aptitude install zsh
will install zsh and any packages on which zsh depends.
A package with documentation, zsh-doc is also available.
=Gentoo
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Currently avalible 4.2.6 stable version. If you want to install zsh on gentoo, simply type in console:
emerge -av zsh
=FreeBSD
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(cd /usr/ports/shells/zsh;make install clean)
=OpenBSD
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=MS Windows
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At this time the developent versions of zsh support utf-8 (your can simply [http://ihanic.be/zsh-utf8 install zsh from cvs]. With this feature you can use zsh with any language.
=Default Shell
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To setup zsh for day-to-day use, it's posible to change default shell (don't use the feature with root user if you don't understand this).
chsh -s `which zsh`
Features
The Zshell(Zsh) has comfortable history. You can also [http://ihanic.be/remove_duplicates_from_zsh tune history engine] in zsh.
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