Z shell

Z shell
	Screenshot of a Zsh session
Original author(s)	Paul Falstad
Developer(s)	Peter Stephenson, et al.
Initial release	1990
Stable release	5.9 / May 14, 2022
Repository	sf.net/p/zsh/code/ ;
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Unix shell
License	MIT-Modern-Variant
Website	www.zsh.org

The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.

Zsh was created by Paul Falstad in 1990 while he was a student at Princeton University. It combines features from both ksh and tcsh, offering functionality such as programmable command-line completion, extended file globbing, improved variable/array handling, and themeable prompts.

Zsh is available for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection and has been adopted as the default shell for macOS and Kali Linux. The "Oh My Zsh" user community website provides a platform for third-party plug-ins and themes, featuring a large and active contributor base.

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