ZSHALL(1)

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).

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 %zshenv%. If the RCS option is unset within %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 %zprofile% and then $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile. Then, if the shell is interactive, commands are read from %zshrc% and then $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc. Finally, if the shell is a login shell, %zlogin% and $ZDOTDIR/.zlogin are read.

FILES
$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv
$ZDOTDIR/.zprofile
$ZDOTDIR/.zshrc
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogin
$ZDOTDIR/.zlogout
${TMPPREFIX}* (default is /tmp/zsh*)
%zshenv%
%zprofile%
%zshrc%
%zlogin%
%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.