I am having a hard time defining and running my own shell functions in zsh. I followed the instructions on the official documentation and tried with easy example first, but I failed to get it work.
I’ve been frustrated before with differences in output from the which command across different platforms (Linux vs. Solaris vx. OS X), with different shells possibly playing into the matter as well. type has been suggested as a better alternative, but how portable would that be?
I use the zsh shell as default shell on both Ubuntu and Arch.
Is there a difference between the behavior of pushd/popd in bash vs zsh? It seems in zsh cd, cd- behaves exactly the same as pushd/popd (which adds/pops directory automatically when cd) while in bash cd doesn’t affect the dir stack.
I want to be able to start zsh with a custom rc file similar to the command: bash --rc-file /path/to/file
Situation :
I understand what brace expansion is, but I don’t know how best to use it.
Is there a shortcut in bash and zsh to delete one component of a path? For example, if I type ls ~/local/color/, and the cursor is at the end of line, is there a shortcut to delete the color/ at the end? Ideally I want solutions in both vi-mode and emacs-mode
To what extent can other POSIX-compatible shells function as reasonable replacements for bash? They don’t need to be true “drop-in” replacements, but close enough to work with most scripts and support the rest with some modification.
Say I have two paths: <source_path> and <target_path>. I would like my shell (zsh) to automatically find out if there is a way to represent <target_path> from <source_path> as a relative path.