The main benefit with zsh is compatibility with other platforms. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Pew, Curtis G <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2024 2:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: zsh for z/OS On Feb 17, 2024, at 11:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: What are the benefits of zsh? Are there incompatibilities? I largely stay with POSIX shell for portability of scripts and skills. Apple switched to zsh because newer versions of bash are covered by the GPLv3 license, which is less corporate-friendly than the older GPLv2. I would assume that IBM has similar motivation. If you’re still seeing bash on a Mac that probably means you started using it before the switch. It’s been a while, but when they switched the default I had to do something (probably in Terminal) to get it to switch for me. (It used to prompt you to switch if you opened with a bash shell.) There’s still bash available on MacOS, but it’s a rather old version, 3.2.57 while the current stable release is 5.2.21. -- Curtis Pew ITS Campus Solutions [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
