I agree. I have been using Zsh since about early 1993. I went through a pretty thorough "first I'll convert to tcsh!" then "to Bash!" then "to Zsh!" evaluatio

I agree. I have been using Zsh since about early 1993. I went through a pretty thorough "first I'll convert to tcsh!" then "to Bash!" then "to Zsh!" evaluation back then and Zsh was absolutely the clear winner. While Bash has "caught up" some in the ensuing decades by copying features (some poorly as you note), I think it still misses quite a few nice "usability" features. I've listed some here [1] from memory, but I am probably forgetting other pretty nice ones. Like maybe ${(f)"$(mycmd)"} to split the output of `mycmd` strictly by newlines. (or ps:\0: for even stricter splitting). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26176897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26176897