Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh), although it is not completely compatible. It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for customising its behaviour, filename globbing, features to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh (another `custom' shell). If you want to use zsh completion system, you should type the following commands: $ autoload -U compinstall $ compinstall See also zshcompsys(1) manpages. :)