A User's Guide to ZSH

A User's Guide to ZSH

I have been writing a user's guide to the shell. So far chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 out of the 7 (plus appendix) have been written. Chapter 1 is just a brief introduction; chapter 2 describes startup files and what to put in them --- as well as some background on shell syntax, so this should be reasonably self contained; chapter 3 introduces ordinary shell commands and their syntax; chapter 5 talks about the shell's system for substitutions and expansions. Chapter 6 describes the new completion system as it has developed in versions 3.1.6 and 3.1.7. You can see this in the following formats.

Online version.
HTML version, as a gzip'd tar archive
LaTeX version: note this contains definitions for A4 paper. Just delete references to A4 from the lines near the top.
PDF versions for A4 paper and for US letter format paper. The US version is about a third as long again, partly because use of the paper is not as well optimised. (I have removed the PostScript versions since Adobe Acrobat is widely available and PDF files are much shorter.)
The original source, written in Yodl, as a gzip'd tar archive. If you have a recent version of Yodl, you can generate the all above formats and more.

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