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zsh or The Z Shell is one of the newest shells with an enhanced command line editing interface.

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Installation

RedHat's

Find zsh-*.rpm in your distribution or simply search via RPM Search and download the file. run as root

rpm -ihv zsh-*.rpm

Debian

Gentoo

Currently avalible 4.2.6 stable version. If you want to install zsh on gentoo, simply type in console:

emerge -av zsh

to setup the shell for day-to-day it's posible to change default shell. (donn't use the feature with root user if you donn't understand this)

chsh -s `which zsh`

FreeBSD

(cd /usr/ports/shells/zsh;make install clean)

OpenBSD

MS Windows

Unicode support.

At this time the developent versions of zsh support utf-8 (your can simply install zsh from cvs. With this feature you can use zsh with any language.

Features

The Zshell(Zsh) has comfortable history. You can also tune history engine in zsh.

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