Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : boraxman
From : bex
Date : Sat Aug 06 2022 09:02:00

At 10:05 AM on 5 Aug 22, boraxman said to bex:

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

In the end, all of the shells can do most of the same things, it's just a
matter of how easy it is to do those things. zsh makes things like working
with history and searching easy-peasy. And oh-my-zsh plugins make adding
environment variables and variables a piece of cake.

Bo> I add an "archived" extended attribute to any files I've put on my
Bo> archive drive, but still want to keep around, and I can list those files
Bo> with ls *(+archived) or delete them with

That is  friggin BRILLIANT! I am going to implement that on my test system!


Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not
advice, it is merely custom.
- Mark Twain

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