zsh

Zsh (Z Shell) is a powerful Unix shell and scripting language that is a superset of the Bourne shell (sh), incorporating features from Bash, KornShell (ksh), and tcsh. It offers extensive customization options, advanced command-line editing, improved globbing, and a rich set of interactive features.

Key facts

First appeared: 1990
Category: programming_language
Problem solved: Zsh was created to address the limitations of existing Unix shells (like the original Bourne shell) by providing a more powerful, extensible, and user-friendly interactive command-line experience and a more robust scripting environment, integrating and enhancing features from various shells.
Platforms: macOS, BSD, Windows (via WSL, Cygwin, MSYS2), Linux, Unix-like systems

Related technologies

Oh My Zsh
Emacs
Alacritty
Vim
Docker
tmux
Homebrew
Git
VS Code
iTerm2
Kubernetes

Notable users

System Administrators
Individual Developers
Apple (default shell in macOS since Catalina)