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I'm back to Lisp. Now, Clojure. For real. But this post is about zsh Part of my relearning of clojure is to read and watch everything cl...

I though I had blogged about that before, but I can't find it anywhere, so I'm just gonna put it here (again?). Pipes are great. Y...

Here's a small docker+shell hack I've never seen around and feel it makes a difference if you're getting in and out different (b...

Here's a small trick I came out with, when trying to run some scripts that were thought for zsh in bash. I use 'noglob' in man...

This is a very nice hack combo that makes shell history really useful. Add precmd to log the last command into a given ~/zsh_history.log f...

So just by chance I found that M-/ does a kind of dabbrev-expand in zsh. And it took me a few seconds to realize that shouldn't happ...

I knew about suffix aliases but usually don't need them because my launchers already use xdo-open. But I came out with this, and feel th...

Let's go for some more csv (or any text file) fixing, grepping and slicing and dicing. The problem is simple: Find a file (among a va...

I like to have a huge toolbox so that I can always find the right tool to do any task. But I'm also a big fan of composability, and orth...

(The motivation for this post is my recent discovery of oilshell , a very promising new shell.  The author has been posting regularly for so...

I saw a Gary Bernhardt's talk where he explains a few console tricks. Most of the tricks themselves I already knew, but the biggest outc...

There's autojump , there's also J , there's also Z .... Each one of them with its own fans. I've been trying some of ...

I can't understand why, oh why, neither bash nor zsh can apply the same policy to mv that they apply to umount, so that when trying to u...

Last month, my ten years old lappy said enough. Well, it can boot, but it doesn't get the plug correctly, so it has to stay pretty stat...

I was talking to David about bash vs zsh features, and looking at the wikipedia page on comparison between shells We saw They only mentione...

zsh has just saved my whole /home/rgrau directory . I was hacking like crazy, listening to some techno music, typing as if I were mad, and t...