zsh === zshall(1) - meta-man page of zsh man pages http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/zshguide.html zshoptions(1) - options Largely compatible with bash. Very good path tab completion, like: % ls B/T/x % ls Books/Technical/xwindowsystemadm08muimiss.zip Man page integration/tab suggestion, like: % rm - --dir -d -- remove directories as well --force -f -- ignore nonexistent files, never prompt --help -- display help message and exit [...snip...] Ability to have a second prompt on the right, like: RPROMPT="[%{$fg_no_bold[yellow]%}%!%{$reset_color%}]" Suffix aliases (i.e. "open with..."): alias -s log="gview" alias -s txt="gvim" alias -s pdf="xpdf" ## Links ## http://www.slideshare.net/jaguardesignstudio/why-zsh-is-cooler-than-your-shell-16194692