Z shell made easy

“Following on from our other articles that make various Linux
tasks easy, in this article we’ll introduce Zsh (Z shell), a shell
that has many of the benefits of Bash and others, plus a lot more
on top. After reading this, you’ll have a good idea about the power
of Zsh and will be able to make an informed decision whether to
switch from your distro’s default shell. We’ll be looking more at
the interactive use of Zsh, and less at non‑interactive shell
scripts – that is, we’ll focus on daily use, and not on scripting
and automating tasks.

“A handy feature of many shells is globbing, also known as
filename generation. An example that you’re probably familiar with
is when you type *.txt to mean all files that end in the .txt file
extension. Your shell expands this to the list of all these files,
which it passes on to the command – for example, as in ls
*.txt.

“In Bash, globbing is rather limited. For example, what if you
want to list all .txt files in subdirectories of the current
directory?”

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