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dserodio

Besides the awesome TAB completion, here are a few features that I use daily:

- Keyboard navigation for TAB completion (using the arrows)

- Coloured TAB completion

- "for" one-liners: for f in /*.py; wc -l $f

- Named directories (cd ~named_dir)

(edit: formatting)

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This is not an attempt to argue with your feature list. Bash clearly doesn't do some of those. But I just noticed the for one-liners you mentioned. I do that in bash alot actually. This is just fyi for anyone reading, not trying to argue with your feature list.

for f in *.py; do wc -l $f; done

also, you can do something like

for f in `find project_name`; do wc -l $f; done t work on the output of another command.

Cheers!

That for loop looks pretty neat, however I don't tend to write loops that often on the command line so it doesn't really benefit me that much.

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