Zsh

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ZSH is a shell, it is almost entirely backwards compatible with bash with several additional options.

Documentation

official docs http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/index-frame.html
zsh manpages https://manpages.debian.org/buster/zsh-common/index.html

Locations

~/.zshrc rcfile
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/*/* builtin completions (see $fpath)
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions third party zsh completions

Components

ZLE man zshzle zsh's line editor
compctl man zshcompctl old completion system
compsys man zshcompsys new completion system
compwid man zshcompwid

See man zsh and man zshroadmap for overviews.

Notes

zsh antigen
zsh plugins
zsh autocompletion