Mastodawn

I’m a simple Fish Shell user. I like the autocomplete. I don’t have to configure anything. Searching history works better than bash (and frankly better than PowerShell)

What’s the hype with zsh? Why not just use Bash with something like Atuin to get better history search? Why even use fish?

What I am asking is, should I just use zsh? What makes zsh better than fish for a simple basic shell user. Light scripting, etc.

#askfedi #zsh #fishshell #bash #linux #runbsd

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kqj_rpn

@kemotep I like the recursive globbing by filetype,perms,etc. feature of zsh. Use it literally dozens of time each day. I don't think bash has it (dunno about fish).

E.g., **/*(.) recursively matches all regular files below cwd. **/*(.x) restricts to files with the x bit set. Very useful when moving stuff from Windows to Unix.

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Kemotep

🔰Jun 16

@kqj_rpn I will have to play around with it. Not like shells take up a ton of space and all that. I understand there is way more customization with zsh too.