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Z shell

Z shell - Programming language

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Z shell is an open source programming language created in 1990 by Paul Falstad.

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A screenshot of the visual language Z shell.

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 is an extended Bourne shell with a large number of improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from Riju:
echo "Hello, world!"
Example from hello-world:
#!/bin/zsh echo "Hello World"

Language features

Feature Supported Token Example
Strings ✓ "
"Hello world"
Print() Debugging ✓ echo
Here Document ✓

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