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blockloop | 9 years ago | on: Mastering Bash and Terminal

I use most of it on both GNU Linux and Mac. I have installed coreutils (GNU bins) and bash v4.4.5 via homebrew on Mac. It's probably safer to say these are more specific to Linux.

blockloop | 9 years ago | on: Mastering Bash and Terminal

I don't use the version that ships with MacOS. You can install the latest version with `brew install bash`. I'm currently using 4.4.5.

Nevertheless, I updated the post to add bash 4 to the assumptions.

blockloop | 9 years ago | on: Mastering Bash and Terminal

I wasn't so much commenting on the release date when I said "newcomers." Mostly commenting on my personal experience. I've been using bash for a long time and only recently have I seen zsh get so popular. It's entirely possible that only the people I know have only recently taken an interest in it.

I would have to run zsh again to remember the pieces that I didn't like. I might have been able to configure my way around it, but I do remember things not working as I expected them to.

blockloop | 9 years ago | on: Mastering Bash and Terminal

I didn't know about :r in combination with !. That's neat. I typically use :r for reading a file into the current buffer (instead of cp <file> <new>). Thanks for sharing.

I don't find myself using ! commands when I know there are multiple commands that I need to run (like your last example). That's usually when I'll suspend and then use the command line.

Could you elaborate on "wreak havoc on your vim session?" I wasn't aware that suspending the process and bringing it back into the fg would harm anything.

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