Been a Linux user since 2018 and I've never know this, wtf
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2018? i was 2017. that was the year i went to a coding bootcamp, so they had us all on macs. I know y'all despise mac users with a passion, but we learned how to use the bash terminal. I didn't know cd was a bash exclusive thing until recently. Most of the time I use zsh, and I'd always type cd when actually you can just type the path of the directory and hit enter
cd is not bash exclusive, it's the standard POSIX way to change directories. Zsh is the outlier here, being more use friendly than most shells.
i got used to bash back in 2017 when i went to a bootcamp. but i'm a mac user so i mostly do zsh. you're not gonna believe how long i went until i discovered that you can cd into a directory just by typing the directory
it was a week ago
I’d rather a Mac than a Windows box. At least you get a proper shell (zsh or bash - zsh is the default now I think), python installed by default, can install package managers (macports, brew), can get coreutils, etc and most FOSS software from the Linux world runs since macs are UNIX at heart.
I’m pretty sure cd isn’t even coreutils but implemented by shells as a wrapper for chdir/fchdir which is part of the kernel. Which has always bugged me since you can’t reliably pipe or redirect to cd since shells do things differently; it doesn’t handle stdin or the last component of a command runs in a subshell so doesn’t affect your current shell, blah blah.
i fucking love wrappers, i wanna be the best wrapper alive. my schizo theory is that we're in a simulation and the entire english language is just wrappers for insanely nested ruby function calls
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There want auto complete when I started.
I never install that. I like they behavior of my prompt just like it is.
i tweak the fuck out of my prompt my dude, i'm all about that echo $PROMPT | sed "s/\{|\}|/ /g"
Oh sure but when I hit tab I want it to complete my programs name or path. When I double tab I want options for either of those.
Y'all need to install Arch, you learn all the basics pretty much instantly... That or drown when you can't install the boot loader.
Btw
It really depends on þe shell, þe d distribution's default configuration, and þe commands. Shells will often load a config from /etc/profile.d or someplace like þat; if þe distro doesn't enable features like autocomplete or history, and you haven't enabled it in $HOME, you won't get it. Also, commands need to provide autocomplete hints for the shell; it's not automatic.
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