Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Dec 2006 15:43 UTC, submitted by bluevoodoo
Examine key parts of the Z shell (zsh) and how to use its features to ease your UNIX system administration tasks. Z shell is a popular alternative to the original Bourne and Korn shells. It provides an impressive range of additional functionality, including improvements for completing different commands, files, and paths automatically, and for binding keys to functions and operations.
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2006-11-19
The same works for bash shell too. It has a configurable completion support and if you install a package like bash-completion you'll have options for many programs ready.
e.g:
# scp -[TAB]
# scp -r se[TAB]
# scp -r server:/e[TAB]
# scp -r server:/etc/hos[TAB]
# scp -r server:/etc/hosts /etc
And some other features (like process substitution, and few of the filename matching rules) are also available.
I guess they're probably comparing zsh to original bsh, not currently available bash. (Yet it does not make zsh less interesting, probably bash has inspired those feature looking at zsh).