Z shell Alive
Z shell
KindProgramming language
Appeared1990
StatusAlive
CreatorPaul Falstad
Familyshell
Also known aszsh
Sourcewww.zsh.org ↗
The everything-shell — borrowed from sh, ksh, csh, and bash, then became macOS's default. Home of the 'what if globbing went further' answer.
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Created by Paul Falstad
Paul Falstad's zsh (1990) — Z shell — merged bash, ksh, and tcsh into the most configurable shell: programmable completion, glob qualifiers, themes, and the Oh-My-Zsh ecosystem.\n\nmacOS made it the default in 2019; it is the shell power users actually configure.