app-shells/zsh

Feature-rich UNIX Shell designed for interactive use.

Versions

Slot Version Repository Platforms
0 scm arbor ~amd64 arm? armv7? armv8? ~x86
5.9-r1 arbor ~amd64 ~arm ~armv7 ~armv8 ~x86

Metadata

Homepage https://www.zsh.org/
Summary Feature-rich UNIX Shell designed for interactive use
Description Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.
Upstream release notes http://zsh.sourceforge.net/releases.html
Dependencies (
    (
        build:
        sys-devel/libtool
        sys-devel/autoconf:2.7
    )
    (
        build:
        sys-apps/texinfo
        doc? (
            app-text/texi2html
        )
        build+run:
        sys-libs/ncurses[>=5.1]
        caps? (
            sys-libs/libcap
        )
        gdbm? (
            sys-libs/gdbm
        )
        pcre? (
            dev-libs/pcre2
        )
    )
)
Downloads (
    ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.9.tar.xz
    https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.9.tar.xz
    mirror://sourceforge/zsh/zsh-5.9.tar.xz
    doc? (
        ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.9-doc.tar.xz
        mirror://sourceforge/zsh/zsh-5.9-doc.tar.xz
    )
)
Licences (
    ZSH
    gdbm? (
        GPL-2
    )
)

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caps Adds POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) capabilities for zsh
doc Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
gdbm Build gdbm bindings, allowing one to use a gdbm database like a zsh hash
pcre Adds support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions