Useful Links

Here are some more links which may be of interest to existing or prospective ZSH users.

• The main ZSH archive site.
• Zsh Wiki
• An introduction by Adam Spiers to advanced interactive use of shells, particularly ZSH. Adam's ZSH page is also useful.
• The ZSH area on dotfiles.com provides some examples of startup files.
• Mike Fletcher's perl stuff page includes a patch against zsh 3.1.6 to implement a module which embeds a perl interpreter.
• The freshmeat appindex record contains meta-data and user comments

• IBM developerWorks — Speaking UNIX, [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] by Martin Streicher, March 2006
• Linux Magazine — In Search Of... by Oliver Kiddle, July 2005
• Unix Review — Shell Corner: Zsh Suite of "keeper" Functions by Bart Schaefer, January 2005
• Linux Magazine — Wilder Wildcards by Jerry Peek, March 2004
• Linux Magazine — Catching Some ZZZs by Jerry Peek, February 2004
• Linux Magazine — Writing Zsh Completion Functions by John Beppu, July 2002
• Linux Magazine — Writing Scripts for Zsh by John Beppu, June 2002
• Linux Magazine — Making the Transition to Zsh by John Beppu, May 2002
• IBM developerWorks — Curtains up: introducing the Z shell by Matt Chapman, February 2001
• slashdot — To Z Or Not To Z — discussion of the above article.
• Dæmonnews — A case for the Z shell by Dominic Mitchell, October 1999

Note that registration is required to read the Linux Magazine articles

• From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line. Published November 2004.

• Debian bug reports for zsh
• ZSH project page on source forge
• patches to CVS
• Single UNIX specification — contents and shell command language
• tarball of cvs repository (approx 3.5MB in size)