zsh 5.9

Powerful shell for interactive use and scripting

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

Website: https://www.zsh.org/
Licenses: GPL 2+
Package source: gnu/packages/shells.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install zsh 5.9 as follows:

guix install zsh@5.9

Or install the latest version:

guix install zsh

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.