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The Z shell

Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.

Version: 5.9 License: Permissive GitHub
Maintainers larryv
Categories shells
Homepage https://www.zsh.org
Platforms darwin
Variants
  • universal (Build for multiple architectures)

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Port notes

To set MacPorts' zsh as default login shell, run:

sudo chpass -s '${prefix}/bin/zsh' "$USER"

To be able to switch default shells to or from zsh without superuser privileges, add it to /etc/shells:

sudo sh -c 'echo ${prefix}/bin/zsh >>/etc/shells'


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