ZSH : The Z-Shell

The Chuck Norris of Shells

Obligatory xkcd reference

sudo apt-get install zsh
yum install zsh

[user@trinity]$ chsh
Password:
Changing shell for user.
New shell [/bin/bash]: /bin/zsh
Shell changed.
[user@trinity]%

Why use or switch to zsh?

Tour of some zsh features and some bash-ing along the way

Tab Auto-Completion

Better auto-completion for files and directories

ZSH has auto-completion for apt

ZSH has auto-completion for 'kill' too!

Globbing : Powerful ZSH wildcards


Demo of Examples

ls -l */
ls /etc/*/vim
ls =ifconfig
ls -l /bin/*(@)

~/.zshrc

is

the

guts

of

ZSH

My .zshrc

Demo

My @zshtips project

Links and resources on ZSH

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