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I run zsh barebones, and I've never been able to get some tab completions to work on bash as well as in zsh. But it's probably possible.

E.g. on some patterns involving *. Care to share your setup?

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No, my bash is mostly the default that Debian provides (only semi-relevant option I have enabled is globstar, which is just the recursive globbing). I guess I didn't mean that zsh wasn't that much better, just that I didn't think it was that much better.

I may switch to zsh eventually, but I just switched shells and I don't really want to do it again very soon.

Debian uses dash actually, not bash. I rather prefer it that way since dash is strictly POSIX compliant. Takes some of the tediousness out of creating portable shell scripts.

/bin/sh on debian is dash, but the default interactive shell is still bash (sorry for nitpicking).

Debian uses dash as /bin/sh, but newly-created accounts default to /bin/bash as their login shell.

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