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title: "Zsh"
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category: "Terminal and shell"
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tagline: "An interactive shell with strong completion and a large plugin ecosystem."
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source: "pacman"
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package: "zsh"
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command: "zsh"
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website: "https://www.zsh.org/"
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code: "https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh"
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---
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## What it is
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Zsh is a Unix shell, an alternative to Bash. It runs Bash-style commands and scripts, and adds smarter tab completion, spelling correction, shared history and a lot of options for customizing the prompt and key bindings. Frameworks such as Oh My Zsh build on it.
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## Why it's here
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- **Better completion.** Tab completes options and arguments for many commands, with menus.
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- **Choice.** Some people prefer it to Bash, and macOS uses it by default.
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## On CoreDesktop
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Zsh is installed from pacman, but Bash stays your login shell, and CoreDesktop's shell setup (prompt, aliases, functions, zoxide and fzf key bindings) is written for Bash. Type `zsh` to try it. To make it your login shell, run `chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh`, then set up your own `~/.zshrc`.
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`update` keeps Zsh current along with the rest of the pacman packages.
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