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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY zsh-download-http "https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-&zsh-version;.tar.xz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY zsh-download-ftp " ">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY zsh-md5sum "182e37ca3fe3fa6a44f69ad462c5c30e">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY zsh-size "3.2 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY zsh-buildsize "48 MB (includes documentation and tests)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY zsh-time "1.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; includes documentation and tests)">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="zsh" xreflabel="zsh-&zsh-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="zsh.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <title>zsh-&zsh-version;</title>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <indexterm zone="zsh">
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| 22 | <primary sortas="a-zsh">zsh</primary>
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| 23 | </indexterm>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 26 | <title>Introduction to zsh</title>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para>
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| 29 | The <application>zsh</application> package contains a command
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| 30 | interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as
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| 31 | a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells,
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| 32 | <application>zsh</application> most closely resembles
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| 33 | <application>ksh</application> but includes many enhancements.
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| 34 | </para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | &lfs122_checked;
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 39 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 40 | <listitem>
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| 41 | <para>
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| 42 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&zsh-download-http;"/>
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| 43 | </para>
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| 44 | </listitem>
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| 45 | <listitem>
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| 46 | <para>
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| 47 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&zsh-download-ftp;"/>
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| 48 | </para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>
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| 52 | Download MD5 sum: &zsh-md5sum;
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| 53 | </para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>
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| 57 | Download size: &zsh-size;
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| 58 | </para>
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| 59 | </listitem>
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| 60 | <listitem>
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| 61 | <para>
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| 62 | Estimated disk space required: &zsh-buildsize;
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| 63 | </para>
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| 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | <listitem>
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| 66 | <para>
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| 67 | Estimated build time: &zsh-time;
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| 68 | </para>
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| 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | </itemizedlist>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <note>
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| 73 | <para>
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| 74 | When there is a new <application>zsh</application> release, the old
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| 75 | files shown above are moved to a new server directory:
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| 76 | <ulink url="https://www.zsh.org/pub/old/"/>.
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| 77 | </para>
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| 78 | </note>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">zsh Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 83 | <para role="optional">
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| 84 | <!-- <xref linkend="pcre2"/>, The next zsh release will support it -->
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| 85 | <xref linkend="valgrind"/> and
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| 86 | <ulink url='https://fbb-git.gitlab.io/yodl/'>yodl</ulink>
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| 87 | </para>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | </sect2>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 92 | <title>Installation of zsh</title>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <para>
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| 95 | Adapt the documentation build system for texinfo-7.0 or later:
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| 96 | </para>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <screen><userinput>sed -e 's/set_from_init_file/texinfo_&/' \
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| 99 | -i Doc/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | <!-- https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/commit/4c89849c9817
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| 102 | https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/commit/ab4d62eb975a -->
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| 103 | <para>
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| 104 | Some programs shipped in the building system for detecting system
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| 105 | features use pre-C99 syntax rejected by GCC-14.1 or later. Fix them
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| 106 | up or Zsh would be wrongly configured and fail to build:
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| 107 | </para>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <screen><userinput>sed -e 's/^main/int &/' \
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| 110 | -e 's/exit(/return(/' \
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| 111 | -i aczsh.m4 configure.ac &&
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| 112 |
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| 113 | sed -e 's/test = /&(char**)/' \
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| 114 | -i configure.ac &&
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| 115 |
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| 116 | autoconf</userinput></screen>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <para>
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| 119 | The documentation files contain references to zsh configuration
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| 120 | files in <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename>, but we'll
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| 121 | use <filename class='directory'>/etc/zsh</filename> to hold these
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| 122 | configuration files instead. The building system will fix up those
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| 123 | references if the <application>yodl</application> package is
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| 124 | available, but it's out of the scope of BLFS. So we need to fix up
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| 125 | the references manually:
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| 126 | </para>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <screen><userinput>sed -e 's|/etc/z|/etc/zsh/z|g' \
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| 129 | -i Doc/*.*</userinput></screen>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | <!-- <note>
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| 132 | <para>
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| 133 | Using a script to build with "su -c script" may produce a funny
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| 134 | configure error message: "no controlling tty". If this happens, add
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| 135 | the switch -\-with-tcsetpgrp to configure.
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| 136 | </para>
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| 137 | </note>
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| 138 | -->
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| 139 | <para>
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| 140 | Install <application>zsh</application> by running the following
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| 141 | commands:
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| 142 | </para>
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| 143 |
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| 144 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 145 | --sysconfdir=/etc/zsh \
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| 146 | --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh \
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| 147 | --enable-cap \
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| 148 | --enable-gdbm &&
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| 149 | make &&
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| 150 |
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| 151 | makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html -o Doc/html &&
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| 152 | makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --plaintext -o zsh.txt &&
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| 153 | makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html --no-split --no-headers -o zsh.html</userinput></screen>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <para>
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| 156 | If you have <xref linkend="texlive"/>
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| 157 | installed, you can build PDF format of the documentation by issuing
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| 158 | the following command:
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| 159 | </para>
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| 160 |
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| 161 | <screen remap="doc"><userinput>texi2pdf Doc/zsh.texi -o Doc/zsh.pdf</userinput></screen>
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| 162 |
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| 163 | <para>
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| 164 | To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
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| 165 | </para>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <para>
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| 168 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 169 | </para>
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| 170 |
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| 171 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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| 172 | make infodir=/usr/share/info install.info &&
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| 173 | make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html install.html &&
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| 174 | install -v -m644 zsh.{html,txt} Etc/FAQ /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <para>
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| 177 | If you built the PDF format of the documentation, install
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| 178 | it by issuing the following command as the
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| 179 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 180 | </para>
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| 181 |
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| 182 | <screen role="root"
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| 183 | remap="doc"><userinput>install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.pdf /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | </sect2>
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| 186 |
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| 187 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 188 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | <para>
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| 191 | <parameter>--sysconfdir=/etc/zsh</parameter> and
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| 192 | <parameter>--enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh</parameter>: These parameters are
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| 193 | used so that all the <application>zsh</application> configuration files
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| 194 | are consolidated into the <filename class='directory'>/etc/zsh</filename>
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| 195 | directory. Omit these parameters if you wish to retain historical
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| 196 | compatibility by having all the files located in the
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| 197 | <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> directory.
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| 198 | </para>
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| 199 |
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| 200 | <para>
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| 201 | <parameter>--enable-cap</parameter>: This option enables
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| 202 | POSIX capabilities.
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| 203 | </para>
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| 204 |
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| 205 | <para>
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| 206 | <parameter>--enable-gdbm</parameter>: This option enables the
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| 207 | use of the <application>GDBM</application> library.
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| 208 | </para>
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| 209 | <!-- the next zsh release will support it
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| 210 | <para>
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| 211 | <option>- -enable-pcre</option>: This option allows zsh to use
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| 212 | the <application>PCRE2</application> regular expression library in shell
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| 213 | builtins.
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| 214 | </para>
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| 215 | -->
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| 216 | </sect2>
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| 217 |
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| 218 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 219 | <title>Configuring zsh</title>
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| 220 |
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| 221 | <sect3 id="zsh-config">
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| 222 | <title>Config Files</title>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <para>
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| 225 | There are a whole host of configuration files for
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| 226 | <application>zsh</application> including
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| 227 | <filename>/etc/zsh/zshenv</filename>,
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| 228 | <filename>/etc/zsh/zprofile</filename>,
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| 229 | <filename>/etc/zsh/zshrc</filename>,
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| 230 | <filename>/etc/zsh/zlogin</filename> and
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| 231 | <filename>/etc/zsh/zlogout</filename>.
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| 232 | You can find more information on these in the
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| 233 | <ulink role='man' url='&man;zsh.1'>zsh(1)</ulink> and related
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| 234 | manual pages.
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| 235 | </para>
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| 236 |
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| 237 | <para>
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| 238 | The first time zsh is executed, you will be prompted by messages asking
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| 239 | several questions. The answers will be used to create a
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| 240 | <filename>~/.zshrc</filename> file. If you wish to run these questions
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| 241 | again, run <command>zsh
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| 242 | /usr/share/zsh/&zsh-version;/functions/zsh-newuser-install -f</command>.
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| 243 | </para>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <para>
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| 246 | There are several built-in advanced prompts. In the
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| 247 | <command>zsh</command> shell, start advanced prompt support with
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| 248 | <command>autoload -U promptinit</command>, then
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| 249 | <command>promptinit</command>. Available prompt names are listed with
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| 250 | <command>prompt -l</command>. Select a particular one with
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| 251 | <command>prompt <literal><prompt-name></literal></command>.
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| 252 | Display all available
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| 253 | prompts with <command>prompt -p</command>. Except for the list and
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| 254 | display commands above, you can insert the other ones in
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| 255 | <filename>~/.zshrc</filename> to be automatically executed at
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| 256 | shell start, with the prompt you chose.
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| 257 | </para>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
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| 260 | <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zshenv">/etc/zsh/zshenv</primary>
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| 261 | </indexterm>
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| 262 |
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| 263 | <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
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| 264 | <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zprofile">/etc/zsh/zprofile</primary>
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| 265 | </indexterm>
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| 266 |
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| 267 | <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
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| 268 | <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zshrc">/etc/zsh/zshrc</primary>
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| 269 | </indexterm>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
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| 272 | <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zlogin">/etc/zsh/zlogin</primary>
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| 273 | </indexterm>
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| 274 |
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| 275 | <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
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| 276 | <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zlogout">/etc/zsh/zlogout</primary>
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| 277 | </indexterm>
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| 278 |
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| 279 | </sect3>
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| 280 |
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| 281 | <sect3>
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| 282 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | <para>
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| 285 | Update <filename>/etc/shells</filename> to include the
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| 286 | <application>zsh</application> shell program names (as the
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| 287 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user):
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| 288 | </para>
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| 289 |
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| 290 | <screen role="root"><userinput>cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF"
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| 291 | <literal>/bin/zsh</literal>
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| 292 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 293 |
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| 294 | </sect3>
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| 295 |
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| 296 | </sect2>
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| 297 |
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| 298 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 299 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 300 |
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| 301 | <segmentedlist>
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| 302 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 303 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 304 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 305 |
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| 306 | <seglistitem>
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| 307 | <seg>zsh and zsh-&zsh-version; (hardlinked to each other)</seg>
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| 308 | <seg>Numerous plugin helper modules under
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| 309 | /usr/lib/zsh/&zsh-version;/</seg>
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| 310 | <seg>/usr/{lib,share}/zsh and /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</seg>
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| 311 | </seglistitem>
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| 312 | </segmentedlist>
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| 313 |
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| 314 | <variablelist>
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| 315 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Description</bridgehead>
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| 316 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 317 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 318 |
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| 319 | <varlistentry id="zsh-prog">
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| 320 | <term><command>zsh</command></term>
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| 321 | <listitem>
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| 322 | <para>
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| 323 | is a shell which has command-line editing, built-in spelling
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| 324 | correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with
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| 325 | autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features
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| 326 | </para>
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| 327 | <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-prog">
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| 328 | <primary sortas="b-zsh">zsh</primary>
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| 329 | </indexterm>
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| 330 | </listitem>
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| 331 | </varlistentry>
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| 332 |
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| 333 | </variablelist>
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| 334 |
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| 335 | </sect2>
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| 336 |
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| 337 | </sect1>
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