Contents 1. [**1** Availability](zsh.html#TOC-Availability) 1. [**1.1** In PureDarwin](zsh.html#TOC-In-PureDarwin) 2. [**1.2** In the DarwinBuild project](zsh.html#TOC-In-the-DarwinBuild-project) 3. [**1.3** In the MacPorts project](zsh.html#TOC-In-the-MacPorts-project) 2. [**2** Changing an user's default shell](zsh.html#TOC-Changing-an-user-s-default-shell) 3. [**3** zshrc](zsh.html#TOC-zshrc) 4. [**4** Resources](zsh.html#TOC-Resources)

Available.

Available. See the DarwinBuild page on how to compile a project if needed.

Available. Take a look at Using the MacPorts project page for more information about MacPorts if you don't know how to build it.

Note: You should also take a look in the available variants (you can use port info zsh or port variants zsh if you want to know the description associated to the respective variant). The zsh port appears to be "pure" as shown below.

To use zsh as the default shell of the currently logged-in user, do

chsh -s /bin/zsh

To revert back to bash, do 

chsh -s /bin/bash

Populate your ~/.zshrc (or /etc/zshrc) with:

export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/libexec:/System/Library/CoreServices export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi alias ll='ls -lh' PS1='%n@%m:%~%# ' TERM='vt100' bindkey -e