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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 15:48 UTC (Thu) by joey (subscriber, #328)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by nix
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

The autoloading of completions on demand is the only reason I still use zsh. When I configured bash to load all completions, starting a shell took enough time to be annoying.


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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 14, 2011 0:01 UTC (Wed) by tertium (subscriber, #56169) [Link]

Then you might find this useful: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467231 (disclaimer: I'm the original reporter). The script still works fine for me, I only added "declare -p bash4 2>/dev/null" when upgraded to bash 4.

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