Shell & TerminalHow-To 4 min read
How to Set Up Zsh With Oh My Zsh
Installing Zsh as your shell, setting up Oh My Zsh, and configuring a theme and a first useful plugin, from a default shell to a productive one.
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Operating systems, infrastructure, emulation, and technical history.
Shell & TerminalDeep Dive 6 min read
Job Control: How Shells Manage Foreground and Background Processes
Ctrl-Z, bg, fg, and a trailing & all touch one mechanism: process groups and Unix signals deciding which process can read your terminal.
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Bash 4.0 Ships With Associative Arrays and Coprocesses
Announced by maintainer Chet Ramey on February 20, 2009, Bash 4.0 added key-value associative arrays and other features scripters had requested for years.
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Brian Fox Releases Bash, a Free Alternative to Proprietary Unix Shells
Released as beta version .99 on June 8, 1989, Bash was built for the GNU Project as a free replacement for the Bourne shell and other proprietary Unix shells.
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Bill Joy's C Shell Ships as Part of 2BSD, Introducing Command History
Distributed starting with 2BSD in 1979, Bill Joy's C shell introduced command history and aliases — features nearly every shell released since has copied.
#news#csh#bsd
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Fish Ships as a Shell That Deliberately Breaks From POSIX
Released February 13, 2005 by Swedish developer Axel Liljencrantz, Fish chose sensible-by-default behavior and built-in syntax highlighting over POSIX compatibility.
#news#fish#history
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How macOS Catalina Changed Zsh's Place in the Shell Ecosystem
Catalina made zsh a mainstream interactive default; this account separates that ecosystem effect from macOS fleet migration and script compatibility.
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Robby Russell Releases Oh My Zsh to Share His Own Config With Coworkers
Born August 28, 2009 to get his own team using Zsh, Oh My Zsh grew into the most widely used Zsh configuration framework in daily use today.
#news#zsh#oh-my-zsh
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Ubuntu Adopts Dash as Default /bin/sh, Exposing Bashisms Everywhere
Ubuntu 6.10 switched its default /bin/sh from Bash to the stricter Dash in October 2006 for faster boot times, surfacing years of non-portable scripts.
#news#dash#ubuntu
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Paul Falstad Releases Zsh, Combining Ideas From ksh, tcsh, and rc
Posted to Usenet by a Princeton student in 1990, Zsh combined the strongest interactive features of several existing shells, decades before becoming macOS's default.
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