Several of these are not just common to all shells, but even work in other tools, like emacs,
E.g. ctrl-l and ctrl-r
Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind
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#42If you’re on 10.15 (Catalina) there’s no need to install zsh, it is the default shell. If you’ve upgraded and are still using bash, just do ‘chsh -s /bin/zsh’ to set the default to zsh.
What was the reason for them doing this do you know? From my experience with it over the last year, zsh is slightly worse at autocomplete than bash, with no advantages. Is there something I'm missing, like a good default .zshrc?
Bash licensing (GPL)
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#43fish shell has a lot of this built-in.
Recently fell in love with fish. Sadly, subshell functionality is still absent, so I use it in interactive mode only.
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#44A lot of these can be easily done in Bash, too! 1. `mkcdir () { mkdir -- "$1" && cd -- "$1"; }` 2a. `bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward'; bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward'` 2b. Default behavior for Bash. 3. `shopt -s autocd` 4. `mmv`, `perl-rename` 5. `qalc` from libqalculate: https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate 8. Default behavior for Bash. 9. Default behavior for Bash.
This is always my complaint about posts like this. I read them looking for the killer feature to make me consider switching from bash and it's always stuff bash does natively or with a one line alias.
If the dizzying assortment of shell parameter expansion features (see man zshexpn), isn't enough to convince you, then the cause is lost.
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#45I've been using Fish instead and it's much much simpler than configuring ZSH to my liking. It's already good out of the box, without having to carry around any kind of configuration. The only stuff I usually do is to setup `powerline-go` as prompt, and voilà, that's pretty much it.
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#46... Why are all shell snippets in Comic Sans? Is that legal?
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#47None of these blew my mind. If you like terminal productivity I recommend: fzf, Facebook path picker (aka fpp), fd, ripgrep, lf, tig. Some honorable mentions: tokei, hyperfine, lazydocker, ctop, ncspot.
Solid selection. I'd also add nnn as the fastest tool to navigate directories I've ever seen.
Have you been able to get it to cd on quit? it's the only thing I can't seem to get. It's amazing though.
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#48A lot of these can be easily done in Bash, too! 1. `mkcdir () { mkdir -- "$1" && cd -- "$1"; }` 2a. `bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward'; bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward'` 2b. Default behavior for Bash. 3. `shopt -s autocd` 4. `mmv`, `perl-rename` 5. `qalc` from libqalculate: https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate 8. Default behavior for Bash. 9. Default behavior for Bash.
Bash supports at least a subset of emacs motion keys. 7. C-a C-k C-y # to park a command
These are provided by Readline. Many command line programs support Readline, and for those that don’t, rlwrap is like magic (even automatically adds history!).
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#49If you’re on 10.15 (Catalina) there’s no need to install zsh, it is the default shell. If you’ve upgraded and are still using bash, just do ‘chsh -s /bin/zsh’ to set the default to zsh.
What was the reason for them doing this do you know? From my experience with it over the last year, zsh is slightly worse at autocomplete than bash, with no advantages. Is there something I'm missing, like a good default .zshrc?
Check out ohmyzsh for a great ~/.zshrc
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#50My company is fond of putting source code under very deep directory structures, so I quite like Z: https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z
Not ZSH specific, but it's also handy to load project-specific environment variables automatically on entering directories: https://direnv.net/.