I would like to master scripting on my mac such as writing a zsh script
to move my downloaded qwk files to my multimail download directory.

I've been doing a lot of my computing in MacOS recently. All my infrastructure still runs on Linux, but I've been 'living' in MacOS...

I switch MacOS to bash, but zsh is mostly POSIX compatible and is very scriptable...



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Re: Re: scripting
By: paulie420 to Utopian Galt on Sat Apr 12 2025 06:49 pm

Howdy,

I switch MacOS to bash, but zsh is mostly POSIX compatible and is very scriptable...

How come? Since zsh came along (and me discovering oh-my-zsh), I've really enjoyed it.

That said, any scripting I do is bash though :)


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I switch MacOS to bash, but zsh is mostly POSIX compatible and is very scriptable...

How come? Since zsh came along (and me discovering oh-my-zsh), I've
really enjoyed it.

That said, any scripting I do is bash though :)

I mean - I like some of zsh's features - the autocomplete and suggestions that pop up are really nice; and I know that you can make all bash scripts work under it, but I just like to have the same terminal experience as I always have so fall back on bash for all my systems. Everythings the same...

Maybe I should give some other shells a chance. I was impressed with Fish, too - but that one can break some bash stuff so I would keep two different terminal emulators available. Meh...



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On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:44:04 -0700
"Utopian Galt" (21:4/108) <Utopian.Galt@f108.n4.z21.fidonet> wrote:

I would like to master scripting on my mac such as writing a zsh
script to move my downloaded qwk files to my multimail download
directory.

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I switch MacOS to bash, but zsh is mostly POSIX compatible and is very scriptable...

Screw that zsh nonsense! :)



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I mean - I like some of zsh's features - the autocomplete and suggestions
that pop up are really nice; and I know that you can make all bash

Those are actually the things that bug me about zsh.

Kinda unrelated but not (and not a shell)... github.com/nvbn/thefuck



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I would like to master scripting on my mac such as writing a zsh script to move my downloaded qwk files to my multimail download directory.


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Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

I would like to master scripting on my mac such as writing a zsh script
to move my downloaded qwk files to my multimail download directory.

Okay.



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On 17 Apr 2025 at 05:29a, phigan pondered and said...

I mean - I like some of zsh's features - the autocomplete and suggestion
that pop up are really nice; and I know that you can make all bash

Those are actually the things that bug me about zsh.

Kinda unrelated but not (and not a shell)... github.com/nvbn/thefuck

Tab completion can be an issue if the shell stalls bringing up the completion. On rare occasion this bites you in the bum, say when unmounting a network share that is not online, and it insists on searching completions, then gets stuck.

But mostly I like it, as well as the syntax highlighting that ZSH offers.

But beyond that, the expanded globbing and qualifiers are really cool. I can, with ZSH set extended attributes on files, and then using the shell, easily use those as "flags" or "tags", allowing me to do something like this

cp *(^+archived) /media/user/DISK

Copy all files which don't have the "ARCHIVED" tag to the mounted disk.

I can then set the tags on those files. As I know they are archived, and exist elsewhere, I can delete only those files

rm *(+archived)

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Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

I would like to master scripting on my mac such as writing a zsh script
to move my downloaded qwk files to my multimail download directory.

ChatGPT is your friend there!

But I skip that step... I have my SyncTerm set to download straight to the mmail/down folder - and rep's go into mmail/up, and SyncTerm looks there
when I get ready to upload.

YMMV


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