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First time installing a distro that came with zsh instead of bash (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by muhyb to c/[email protected]

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[–] gamma 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are two massive points no one has mentioned yet.

Quoting every expansion isn't necessary in Zsh. Parameters don't split or glob by default.
$array actually expands to every element in an array.

Compare this between Bash and Zsh:

a=('/* hello */' 'world!' '  ')
printf '"%s" ' $a

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

$array actually expands to every element in an array.

Very convenient. But ~every shell script is written in bash or POSIX(y) sh. When I need to write shell scripts I begin with busybox sh compability. If it turns out to be too complex, I'll convert to bash. This is because if I ever would publish the script it would have better changes to be accepted as a PR for example. Yes. Bash is a mess. I don't even like it that much. It's okay. But it's more standard then zsh. Although I've seen the tides turn on some occasions, like macOS.

Maybe some day I'll give zsh a second chance.

[–] gamma 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to write Bash more than anything, but now the things I write are either simple enough to keep POSIX or complex enough that I miss the extra niceties Zsh provides.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

but now the things I write are either simple enough to keep POSIX or complex enough that I miss the extra niceties Zsh provides.

Well said!