Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : bex
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Aug 05 2022 10:05:21

 be> Bo> ZSH can do this.  ZSH can do a lot.
 be> 
 be> Why yes, yes it does!  :)  It was really hard for me to move away from
 be> bash, but I'm a complete zsh devotee now. It's conveniences are truly
 be> labor saving.
 be> 
 be> 

I found a lot of things that I did with ZSH, BASH could do.  I don't know if I wrongfully thought they were ZSH only features, or if BASH had changed since I converted to ZSH, but I read through some BASH documentation and was thinking "I thought this was specific to ZSH..."

Being able to use arguments from previous commands without having to press
the up arrow and hand edit the command and do substitutions using the "/s" syntax is probably my favourite feature.  I also like the glob qualifiers, and that you can select files that pass a certain test.

I add an "archived" extended attribute to any files I've put on my archive drive, but still want to keep around, and I can list those files with
ls *(+archived) or delete them with
rm *(+archived).  Kind of like a command line tagging system where you can select files which have a particular tag on the shell.

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