On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > 
> > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas
> > from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft.
> 
> Do you use that as your interactive shell, for scripting, or both?
> 

Interactive only.  For scripting, I stick to sh unless it gets too complex --
then I jump to Ruby.
> 
> > 
> > man zsh to see that there are so many features they had to break up the
> > man pages.
> 
> That's kind of scary.

True, and it shows in its initial virtual size:

sterling   62630  0.0  0.0  8264  1804   0  I    10:42AM   0:00.00 sh
sterling   62733  0.0  0.1 10284  2932   0  I    10:42AM   0:00.01 csh
sterling   62791  0.0  0.1 10284  2848   0  I    10:43AM   0:00.01 tcsh
sterling   70731  0.0  0.1 14580  4324   0  I    10:46AM   0:00.05 zsh
sterling   71773  0.0  0.1 10220  2908   0  I+   10:46AM   0:00.01 bash

But on a laptop with 4GB, I don't miss it.

-- 
Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com
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