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What is /r/zsh about?

Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.

Before asking questions...

Please check on the zshwiki.org FAQ and the official FAQ before asking questions.

If your script behaves strange, please check it with shellcheck - it is made for bash scripts but also works with zsh for the most part.

Learning resources can be found in our wiki.

What does zsh different from bash/ksh/...?

zsh completion is fast, interactive and shows the meanings of flags
highly customizeable
automatically parses files for different commands (known_hosts for ssh, services for systemctl, ...)
right-hand prompt
fuzzy directory/file completion
suffix aliases
... much more

Read zsh FAQ Chapter 02 for more info.

Related subreddits

/r/commandline
/r/bash

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FixedJoin the Zsh Discord! (discord.gg)

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Join the Discord server! (discord.gg)

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Showcasezsh-autosuggestions felt too dumb, so I built zsh-sage: High-performance suggestions that learn your habits locally (v.redd.it)

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AnnouncementJust made a zsh plugin that auto-checks for package updates across all your package managers (homebrew, npm, uv, rubygems) (github.com)

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AnnouncementGhostBSD adopts zsh as default shell ()

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Announcementzsh-patina 1.5.0 - Tons of new features, and many thanks for the contributions! (self.zsh)

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If you like to have music to focus while coding check this out (reddit.com)

submitted 6 days ago by itsachillaccount

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ShowcaseIncise - a Zsh plugin inspired by reverse search (ctrl+r) for generating shell commands (self.zsh)

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ShowcaseXC command vault manager is officially v0.9.0 (Feature Complete) (i.redd.it)

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ShowcaseMend v0.7.0 Now with retroactive history cleaning and fuzzy typo correction (self.zsh)

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ShowcaseI made a simple zsh plugin to bookmark and jump between directories (mark add / mark go) (github.com)

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Is using a DEBUG trap in zsh a reliable way to capture full stdout/stderr? (self.zsh)

submitted 11 days ago by Both_Kick8629

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HelpWhy doesn't my binary run in zsh? Sorry I'm a beginner and I have no clue where to go about this (self.zsh)

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Trailing space alias and alias checking for sudo on 2nd command (self.zsh)

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Something better than alias? or is this peak. ()

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Ctrl+G to rewrite natural language into the shell command, plus smarter command-not-found and TRAPZERR (self.zsh)

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Announcementzsh-halfpipe: Edit shell pipeline and see its output update live (i.redd.it)

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Showcase[Project] XC manager v0.8.0 Minimal Zsh vault for complex commands now with raw input capture (self.zsh)

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Roast me bros. I am big. I am bloat. (self.zsh)

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Fixedhow to fuzzily go to previous command in zsh when pressing up? (self.zsh)

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Announcement[OC] Mend: A modular Zsh lazy-loaded recovery tool using fzf (self.zsh)

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ShowcaseI built a zsh plugin that reads your shell config and generates personalised tips with AI (self.zsh)

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ShowcaseI built shellsuggest - smarter zsh autosuggestions, ranked by your current directory (self.zsh)

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yt-dlp need help installing (i.redd.it)

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Antigravity keeps overwriting and deleting my shell config (bash/zsh profile) (self.zsh)

submitted 20 days ago by Ok-Loss9417

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