ZSHALL
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 26, 1996
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NAME
zshall - the Z shell meta-man page
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive
login shell and as a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells,
zsh most closely resembles ksh but includes many enhancements. Zsh
has comand line editing, builtin spelling correction, programmable
command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history
mechanism, and a host of other features.
This manual page includes all the separate manual pages in the
following order: zshmisc (general information), zshexpn (command and
parameter expansion), zshbuiltins (built-in functions), zshcompctl
(completion control via the compctl built-in), zshparam
(shell parameters), zshzle (command line editing) and zshoptions
(shell options).
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INVOCATION OPTIONS
If the -s flag is not present and an argument is given,
the first argument is taken to be the pathname of a script to
execute. The remaining arguments are assigned to the positional
parameters. The following flags are interpreted by the shell
when invoked:
-
-
-c string
Read commands from string.
- -i
-
Force shell to be interactive.
- -s
-
Read command from the standard input.
STARTUP/SHUTDOWN FILES
Commands are first read from /etc/zshenv.
If the RCS option is unset
within /etc/zshenv, all other
initialization files are skipped.
Otherwise, commands are read
from $ZDOTDIR/.zshenv.
(If ZDOTDIR is unset, HOME is used instead).
If the first character of argument zero passed to the shell
is -, or if the -l flag is present, then the shell is
assumed to be a login shell, and commands
are read from /etc/zprofile and then $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile.
Then, if the shell is interactive,
commands are read from /etc/zshrc and then $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc.
Finally, if the shell is a login shell, /etc/zlogin and
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogin are read.
FILES
$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv
$ZDOTDIR/.zprofile
$ZDOTDIR/.zshrc
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogin
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogout
${TMPPREFIX}* (default is /tmp/zsh*)
/etc/zshenv
/etc/zprofile
/etc/zshrc
/etc/zlogin
/etc/zlogout
AUTHOR
Zsh was originally written by Paul Falstad <pjf@cts.com>. Zsh
is now maintained by the members of the zsh workers mailing list
zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu. The development is currently
coordinated by Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>.
SEE ALSO
sh(1),
csh(1),
tcsh(1),
rc(1),
bash(1),
ksh(1).
IEEE Standard for information Technology - Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) - Part 2: Shell and Utilities,
IEEE Inc, 1993, ISBN 1-55937-255-9.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- INVOCATION OPTIONS
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- STARTUP/SHUTDOWN FILES
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- FILES
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- AUTHOR
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- SEE ALSO
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