The reason why I want such a list is I usually point people to zsh-lovers list who ask me why I use zsh, but something more to the point would be great, and probably more convincing.
It can, if you set the `globstar` option:
$ shopt -s globstar
$ echo **/*.txt
a/a2/baz.txt a/bar.txt a/foo.txt b/bar.txt b/foo.txt $ setopt brace_ccl #put this in your ~/.zshrc
$ echo {1-3}.pdf {a-d}.pdf
1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf d.pdfAnother thing I suggest doing is joining #zsh on freenode, and asking your questions there.
Yet another thing you could do is skim through the zsh user's guide[2], which is also kind of old, but is pretty comprehensive (for the time), and will give you more of a feel for what zsh can do. zsh's man pages are also very comprehensive (and huge), and might be worth a peek.
Sometimes I wish there wasn't so much duplication of effort in this world..
source virtualenvwrapper
[1] /etc/bash_completion.d/virtualenvwrapper
There are plenty more features like for example hashed directories, e.g. shortcuts to a directory:
hash -d log=/var/log
cd ~log # PWD is /var/log
The project is quite old already and could need some love. If someone wants to contribute, it's available on GitHub: https://github.com/grml/zsh-lovers
A more recent project similar to zsh-lovers is http://grml.org/zsh-pony/ - this are the notes from a talk I gave at DebConf 2011 and also covers some nice features of Zsh. Should be easier to go through that than through zsh-lovers if you're interested in an introduction of nifty features.
I guess the reason why no up2date list of "what Zsh can do but Bash can't" exists is that most people who explore Zsh never really look back to Bash once they went the Zsh route. Bash v4 got some features from Zsh but there are so many small things that Zsh still provides that once you get used to them you never want to go back. :)
$ tar --c<tab>
--check-device -- check device numbers when creating incremental
--check-links -- print a message if not all links are dumped
--checkpoint -- display progress messages every NUMBERth record
--checkpoint-action -- execute ACTION on each checkpoint
--compare -- find differences between archive and file system
--compress -- filter the archive through compress
--concatenate --catenate -- append tar files to an archive
--confirmation -- ask for confirmation for every action
--create -- create a new archiveThat's not much of an alias. Usually I use them to shorten the typing, not make it longer.
Here's my suggestion:
alias "list all files, but don't show much info"= ls
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