r/zsh

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Zsh: a powerful programmer's shell

r/zsh

Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use and it is also a powerful scripting language.

Created Oct 28, 2009

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###What is r/zsh about? Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.

###Before asking questions... Please check on the zshwiki.org FAQ and the official FAQ before asking questions.

If your script behaves strange, please check it with shellcheck - it is made for bash scripts but also works with zsh for the most part.

Learning resources can be found in our wiki.

###What does zsh different from bash/ksh/...?

zsh completion is fast, interactive and shows the meanings of flags
highly customizeable
automatically parses files for different commands (known_hosts for ssh, services for systemctl, ...)
right-hand prompt
fuzzy directory/file completion
suffix aliases
... much more

Read zsh FAQ Chapter 02 for more info.

###Related subreddits r/commandline
r/bash

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