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Same, i'm rather new to using zsh but it would help greatly if there was a comparative list between bash and zsh defining the differences. It was suggested to m

by kbouw 14y ago

Same, i'm rather new to using zsh but it would help greatly if there was a comparative list between bash and zsh defining the differences. It was suggested to me by a couple of friends but at this stage, i'm not clear on why I would benefit from using zsh over bash.

sliverstorm 14y ago
There's just a lot of nifty little features. Two of the most important for me have been shared history between my 20+ terminal sessions, and properly handling wrapping of the command prompt. I am sure bash can wrap properly, but I couldn't figure out why it wasn't and zsh never gave me that problem!
pyre 14y ago
I don't know if bash has this, but some commands have tab-completion on the arguments, with a listing for multiple hits: $ tar --c<tab> --check-device -- check device numbers when creating incremental --check-links -- print a message if not all links are dumped --checkpoint -- display progress messages every NUMBERth record --checkpoint-action -- execute ACTION on each checkpoint --compare -- find differences between archive and file system --compress -- filter the archive through compress --concatenate --catenate -- append tar files to an archive --confirmation -- ask for confirmation for every action --create -- create a new archive
- entropie 14y ago
  Bash can do this too.
  - tomsthumb 14y ago
    How? That would be handy...
    - thebillywayne 14y ago
      Install the bash-completion package. [1] You'll then find a directory /etc/bash_completion.d/ which has all of the commands the package knows about. The number of commands can be extended. [1] http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/ http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/
    - e12e 14y ago
      On a Debian derivate distribution, do: sudo aptitude install bash-completion #or apt-get install... #Then in your .bashrc do something like: # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc). if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] then . /etc/bash_completion fi The latter (or equivalent) is already in /etc/skel/.bashrc on Debian at least (provided by the bash package), so users created with eg. adduser already have this in their .bashrc. IIRC it may be commented out in Debian stable - I currently run testing, and /etc/skel/.bashrc there contains: # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile # sources /etc/bash.bashrc). if ! shopt -oq posix; then if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi fi edit: missing words
  - pyre 14y ago
    I know that bash can do completion. I just wasn't aware if bash dot '--c<tab>' completion, or if it listed possible completions for that.

by kbouw 14y ago

sliverstorm 14y ago

There's just a lot of nifty little features. Two of the most important for me have been shared history between my 20+ terminal sessions, and properly handling wrapping of the command prompt. I am sure bash can wrap properly, but I couldn't figure out why it wasn't and zsh never gave me that problem!

pyre 14y ago

I don't know if bash has this, but some commands have tab-completion on the arguments, with a listing for multiple hits: $ tar --c<tab> --check-device -- check device numbers when creating incremental --check-links -- print a message if not all links are dumped --checkpoint -- display progress messages every NUMBERth record --checkpoint-action -- execute ACTION on each checkpoint --compare -- find differences between archive and file system --compress -- filter the archive through compress --concatenate --catenate -- append tar files to an archive --confirmation -- ask for confirmation for every action --create -- create a new archive

entropie 14y ago
Bash can do this too.
- tomsthumb 14y ago
  How? That would be handy...
  - thebillywayne 14y ago
    Install the bash-completion package. [1] You'll then find a directory /etc/bash_completion.d/ which has all of the commands the package knows about. The number of commands can be extended. [1] http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/ http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/
  - e12e 14y ago
    On a Debian derivate distribution, do: sudo aptitude install bash-completion #or apt-get install... #Then in your .bashrc do something like: # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc). if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] then . /etc/bash_completion fi The latter (or equivalent) is already in /etc/skel/.bashrc on Debian at least (provided by the bash package), so users created with eg. adduser already have this in their .bashrc. IIRC it may be commented out in Debian stable - I currently run testing, and /etc/skel/.bashrc there contains: # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile # sources /etc/bash.bashrc). if ! shopt -oq posix; then if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi fi edit: missing words
- pyre 14y ago
  I know that bash can do completion. I just wasn't aware if bash dot '--c<tab>' completion, or if it listed possible completions for that.