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Software > Scripting Languages >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.zsh.org/

A shell.

Though not usually available for a Linux distribution, it's exceptionally powerful enough that I insist upon it.

• aka Z shell

• http://zshwiki.org/

• quality bitching

Note that you will find a lot of example and working code on GitHub:

• zsh
• bash and zsh

• sh

  • .. since sh code usually works.
  • This code is generally tested and used under Dash.

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• 2016-03-28 - 5.0.2, on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 - 5.0.2, on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
• 2009-04-21 - 4.3.9 on (distribution not recorded)

• I had used this for a very long time on multiple distributions.

Notes ∞

• sjl's oh-my-zsh - a framework for managing zsh configuration

  • Check out ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_UNTRACKED

Prompt notes ∞

# Left prompt
PS1='B(%h) %m%#%b'

# Right prompt
RPS1='(%20<...<%~)'

Zsh on Windows ∞

WinZsh - Z shell for Windows

• Not 64 bit

• As of 2016-01-29 not updated since 2010.

2016-03-28 - 5.0.2 ∞

zsh 5.0.2 (i486-slackware-linux-gnu)

I installed this with slpkg:

\slpkg  -s sbo  zsh

2016-03-26 - 5.0.2 ∞

zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

I installed this with Lubuntu's package manager.

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