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I've been using zsh for a while now, mostly without using any special feature that isn't available (maybe with some tweaks) in bash. The additional value for me
by Spittie 13y ago
I've been using zsh for a while now, mostly without using any special feature that isn't available (maybe with some tweaks) in bash.
The additional value for me is that I get all of this out of the box, or with not much effort. That's to oh-my-zsh I've got a nice looking theme (agnoster). Thanks to "zsh-syntax-highlighting" I get syntax highlighting, thanks to "history-substring-search" i got a nice way to search in my command history. All of those just took less than one minute to set up on my machine.
Luckily enough, I don't have to work over servers which may or may not have zsh, so i don't need to worry about that. Whenever I have to use a PC with bash (or any other *sh), I can easily get the same result, with a slightly-worse user experience.
Also, as a nice tip, zsh will complete "kill" and "killall". So that I don't have to fire up htop every time I want to kill a process.
- honr 13y agoI have yet to find a useful feature that I don't already get in bash (assuming you are capable of sudo apt-get install bash-completion). Fish (that I don't use regularly), however, has useful features.