On Fri, Oct 20, 2000, Adi Stav wrote about "Cool shell tricks (was: Re: file system
questions)":
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:59:48PM +0200, guy keren wrote:
> > there is a dirty method you could use. every once in a while (perhaps even
> > via a cron job), execute the command:
> >
> > :>/path/to/.xsession-error
>
> Cool.
>
> I love these little shell tricks... I'm personally particularly fond
>..
> Does anyone else like these tricks? I'd love to hear about other
> people's.
When you know all the features of your shell (e.g., bash or zsh), it gives
you incredible power - both for interactive use and for programming (zsh
is a very capable programming language!).
To wield this power wisely, you'll need to know what exactly is available
to you, i.e., you should read the manual and/or texinfo documentation, and
see what cool features your shell has :)
6 years ago I switched from using AT&T's (David Korn's) ksh to using zsh
because of a few features I was missing (such as smart completion). The Zsh
executable was then much bigger than ksh (now on Solaris it is about 2.5
bigger) and at first I thought that it was bloatware, adding, besides the
2-3 features I wanted, 20-30 extra useless features. Since then I changed
my mind - I've probably used each and every feature in zsh for something,
and I can't believe I once settled for ksh :)
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