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The Z Shell Guide

This document has been produced from the texinfo file zsh.texi, included in the Doc sub-directory of the Zsh distribution.

Origins

The texinfo guide was originally put together by Jonathan Hardwick, <jch@cs.cmu.edu>, who converted the zsh.1 file distributed with zsh v2.5.0. After a period of neglect it was updated by Clive Messer, <clive@epos.demon.co.uk>, to reflect the many changes made to both the shell and the original zsh.1, and to include other useful information from the META-FAQ.

The texinfo guide is now automatically generated, as are the man pages, from the Yodl source included in the zsh distribution.

Producing documentation from zsh.texi

The texinfo source may be converted into several formats:

The Info guide
The Info format allows searching for topics, commands, functions, etc. from the many Indices. The command `makeinfo zsh.texi' is used to produce the Info documentation.
The printed guide
The command `texi2dvi zsh.texi' will output zsh.dvi which can then be processed with dvips and optionally gs (Ghostscript) to produce a nicely formatted printed guide.
The HTML guide
Mark Borges, <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov, maintains an HTML version of this guide at http://www.peak.org/zsh/Doc/zsh_toc.html. (The HTML version is produced with texi2html, which may be obtained from http://wwwcn.cern.ch/dci/texi2html/. The command is `texi2html -split_chapter -expandinfo zsh.texi'.)

For those who do not have the necessary tools to process texinfo, precompiled documentation (PostScript, dvi, info and HTML formats) is available from the zsh archive site or its mirrors, in the file zsh-doc.tar.gz. (See section Availability for a list of sites.)


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