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AirDrop also shares your full name (seemingly the one associated with your Apple ID, not what you have set for yourself in your contacts), both by displaying it in the sharing inte…

If by '99% coverage' you mean it can complete the command's options, and know which of them take arguments, and maybe even know about sub-commands, yes. zsh's _arguments, and its _…

What do you mean 'rewrite unlink'? As far as i know, none of the standard POSIX/C file-manipulation functions, including unlink(2), have ever supported NUL bytes embedded in file n…

As the other person said, if your scripts are executables with an sh or bash 'shebang' at the top, they will continue to use the same shell they always did. But if you did want to …

I agree that zsh's default configuration sucks (and the new-user wizard is overwhelming). I would like the project to provide a more opinionated set of defaults to OS vendors; i th…

zsh doesn't require any 'plugins' for its tab-completion, everything you need is distributed with the shell. A lot of people who use zsh just don't understand how it works and thin…

Is that what they've done? The linked article doesn't say that.

zsh isn't a perfect super-set of bash (there are some differences in syntax, provided built-ins, &c.), but it does have equivalents for most of bash's functionality. Off the top of…

You probably don't need to update /etc/shells unless you really want to. chsh just won't let you switch to a shell that's not listed there without using sudo, which isn't a problem…

bash's EPOCHREALTIME was inspired by mksh, which was in turn inspired by zsh. And in zsh, EPOCHREALTIME was named after the system real-time clock (specifically the CLOCK_REALTIME …

Yeah, you're right of course. I think i was conflating job control with sub-shells, sorry.

fish doesn't try to support all of the weird historical quirks of Bourne-style shells, so its grammar and built-in 'API' are far simpler and clearer. Its out-of-the-box configurati…

The problem with most of these lists and how-tos is that they're the CLI equivalent of 'I Fucking Love Science'. The people suggesting things like zsh frame-works rarely seem able …

Right, it was just a random example that popped into my head. You would probably also want to think twice about using -R (at least with GNU grep), about hard-coding the search dire…

>Simple trick behind this technique is that when using shell wildcards, especially asterisk (...), Unix shell will interpret files beginning with hyphen (-) character as command li…

How are you going to white-list network-interface names? On Linux at least you can name them almost anything you want: % sudo ip link set eth3 down % sudo ip link set eth3 name "'d…

>Also, if unions are not a direct, full frontal attack on capital and hierarchy, why are they facing constant attack from organs of ruling class consciousness, like, say, the WSJ, …

>Shells like zsh and fish will never get mainstream adoption because they are not compatible with bash. zsh and fish don't really belong in the same comparison IMO. zsh is, like ba…

GREP_OPTIONS is deprecated in GNU grep since i think 2.20. It will be removed in a future version, and until then it's going to print an irritating warning message every time you u…

You can shorten it with -t: -tc, -tphp, -truby, -tsh. Then it's actually the same amount of characters as with ag.