The zsh package contains a 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.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.9.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 182e37ca3fe3fa6a44f69ad462c5c30e
Download size: 3.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 48 MB (includes documentation and tests)
Estimated build time: 1.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; includes documentation and tests)
Optional Documentation: https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.9-doc.tar.xz
Documentation MD5 sum: 8db53446f613521fb4f9b0bd9f6adda1
Documentation download size: 3.0 MB
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When there is a new zsh release, the old files shown above are moved to a new server directory: https://www.zsh.org/pub/old/.
If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack it with the following command:
tar --strip-components=1 -xvf ../zsh-5.9-doc.tar.xz
Install zsh by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc/zsh \
--enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh \
--enable-cap \
--enable-gdbm &&
make &&
makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --plaintext -o Doc/zsh.txt &&
makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html -o Doc/html &&
makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html --no-split --no-headers -o Doc/zsh.html
If you have texlive-20230313 installed, you can build PDF format of the documentation by issuing the following command:
texi2pdf Doc/zsh.texi -o Doc/zsh.pdf
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
make infodir=/usr/share/info install.info &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9/html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9/html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.{html,txt} /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9
If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing
the following commands as the root
user:
make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9/html install.html && install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.dvi /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9
If you built the PDF format of the documentation, install it by
issuing the following command as the root user:
install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.pdf /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9
--sysconfdir=/etc/zsh and
--enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh:
These parameters are used so that all the zsh configuration files are consolidated into
the /etc/zsh directory. Omit these
parameters if you wish to retain historical compatibility by having
all the files located in the /etc
directory.
--enable-cap: This option
enables POSIX capabilities.
--enable-gdbm: This option
enables the use of the GDBM
library.
--enable-pcre: This option allows zsh
to use the PCRE regular expression
library in shell builtins.
There are a whole host of configuration files for zsh including /etc/zsh/zshenv, /etc/zsh/zprofile, /etc/zsh/zshrc, /etc/zsh/zlogin and /etc/zsh/zlogout. You can find more information
on these in the zsh(1) and related
manual pages.
The first time zsh is executed, you will be prompted by messages
asking several questions. The answers will be used to create a
~/.zshrc file. If you wish to run
these questions again, run zsh
/usr/share/zsh/5.9/functions/zsh-newuser-install
-f.
There are several built-in advanced prompts. In the zsh shell, start advanced
prompt support with autoload -U
promptinit, then promptinit. Available prompt
names are listed with prompt
-l. Select a particular one with prompt <prompt-name>. Display all
available prompts with prompt
-p. Except for the list and display commands
above, you can insert the other ones in ~/.zshrc to be automatically executed at shell
start, with the prompt you chose.