zsh

In the examples so far, we have been using a prompt of "zsh%" , which is not terribly informative.

The Zsh even has a form of spell checker, which attempts to correct various mistakes.

In zsh, you can accomplish this by skipping the temporary files, as shown in Listing 21.

Within shells supporting the Bourne syntax (bash and zsh), you can define a function using the following syntax shown in Listing 6.

Please do try out the examples for yourself, to really get a feel for Zsh.

The zsh operator, $=, splits words at whitespace boundaries.

There are a number of options available to you within zsh.

Finally, zsh supports a number of postfix qualifiers.

You'll find throughout this article that this is something Zsh is very good at doing.

Within some shells, zsh included, you can complete a file or command by pressing the TAB key.

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With zsh, the same result can be achieved on a single command line (see Listing 13).

The above example was with the Bash shell, but of course the Zsh can do this too!

Hence, the command synch. zsh has only one positional parameter, $0.

See the Zsh documentation for more details of the Zsh startup process.

By using the custom completion control in zsh, you can add these subcommands to svn as part of the completion process.

You can redirect to multiple outputs simultaneously with zsh (see Listing 15).

Zsh offers a few default colours that can be accessed with names such as red, cyan, etc.

The Zsh also supports a right-hand prompt, using the RPROMPT variable which supports the same syntax.

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These commands work in bash, but similar options exist in zsh and other shells.

The commands should work in all shells, not just zsh.

By default the behaviour of Zsh is very similar, but by setting a couple of options, we can make it friendlier.

But Zsh can do even better than that.

For example, to use cloud. zsh-theme, set ZSH_THEME=cloud.

If you save Listing 4 to an executable file named listcmds. zsh, the output might look like this

The production of hydrogen chloride and hydrochloric acid in the new type ZSH positive pressure two-in-one graphite synthesis furnace

Zsh has a multi-line editing mode, which is great for short shell scripts, as in this example