[ As a long time zsh user, I'm biased of course. ]
>> > (the "**" feature alone is something to kill for)
Agreed. Eshell has it also, BTW.
>> Could you please describe it briefly?
> "fgrep STRING /foo/bar/**/*.c" will look for the named string in all
> *.c files in /foo/bar and in all its subdirectories, recursively (and
> is much faster than "fgrep -R STRING /foo/bar/**/* --include='*.c'"
> you will need without the ** feature).
It's not just speed. In many cases you can use find|xargs to get a similar
result, but there are cases where he ** thingy is difficult to emulate with
other tools. One example I've used releatedly is
for f in **/CVS/Root; do ... done
if you havedirectories named "CVS" that don't have a "Root" fine in them,
the above code is difficult to simulate with find.
Stefan
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