Subj : Re: scripting
To   : phigan
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Apr 17 2025 11:14 pm

On 17 Apr 2025 at 05:29a, phigan pondered and said...
 
 ph> > I mean - I like some of zsh's features - the autocomplete and suggestion
 ph> >  that pop up are really nice; and I know that you can make all bash
 ph> 
 ph> Those are actually the things that bug me about zsh.
 ph> 
 ph> Kinda unrelated but not (and not a shell)... github.com/nvbn/thefuck
 ph> 
Tab completion can be an issue if the shell stalls bringing up the completion.  On rare occasion this bites you in the bum, say when unmounting a network share that is not online, and it insists on searching completions, then gets stuck.

But mostly I like it, as well as the syntax highlighting that ZSH offers.

But beyond that, the expanded globbing and qualifiers are really cool.  I can, with ZSH set extended attributes on files, and then using the shell, easily use those as "flags" or "tags", allowing me to do something like this

cp *(^+archived) /media/user/DISK

Copy all files which don't have the "ARCHIVED" tag to the mounted disk.

I can then set the tags on those files.  As I know they are archived, and exist elsewhere, I can delete only those files

rm *(+archived)

.... Error, no Keyboard - Press F1 to Continue.

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