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Authored by: gidds on Sep 08, '05 02:56:01PM
Thirded.

My own absolute must-have feature is the recursive globbing. Any shell will expand * to a list of files in the current folder; but zsh will expand **/* to a list of files in the current folder and every folder inside it, recursively.

It's far more powerful than that, though -- you can easily get it to include or exclude files based on their size, attributes, owner, etc., and you can sort the results. It basically does everything find does, only more neatly and concisely, and because it's right there in the shell you don't have to faff around with quoting or pipelines.

zsh has lots more features, too, but that's the one I can't do without. I don't understand why more people don't use it!

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