Issued:
2013-11-20
Updated:
2013-11-20

RHEA-2013:1557 - zsh enhancement update

Synopsis

zsh enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated zsh packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The zsh shell is a command interpreter which can be used as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell (the Korn shell), but includes many enhancements. Zsh supports command line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and more.

This update adds the following enhancement:

  • This update adds the ${NAME:OFFSET:LENGTH} substitution to zsh, which enables users to use the syntax ${NAME:OFFSET:LENGTH} to display a substring. (BZ#820530)

Users of zsh are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • zsh-html-4.3.10-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • zsh-4.3.10-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.3.10-7.el6.s390x.rpm
  • zsh-4.3.10-7.el6.src.rpm
  • zsh-html-4.3.10-7.el6.s390x.rpm
  • zsh-html-4.3.10-7.el6.i686.rpm
  • zsh-4.3.10-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.3.10-7.el6.i686.rpm
  • zsh-4.3.10-7.el6.s390x.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.3.10-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • zsh-4.3.10-7.el6.i686.rpm
  • zsh-html-4.3.10-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.3.10-7.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information