Tagged: Zsh

12 September 2026 Linux Bash Zsh Fish Kali

The Shell Game Part 1: Introduction

The first post in a series testing whether thirty-odd years of Bash habit is still the right call or just what came pre-installed. Bash, Zsh, and Fish, run for real on a dedicated lab VM, verdict included.
12 September 2026 Linux Zsh Kali

The Shell Game Part 3: Zsh, Same Compatibility, Better Daily Driver

Part 3 of The Shell Game. Zsh runs Part 2's script and a real, years-old .bash_aliases file unmodified, recurses glob patterns Bash can't without an option, and hard-errors on things Bash quietly ignores.
12 September 2026 Linux Zsh Bash Kali

The Shell Game Part 5: Making It Portable

Part 5 of The Shell Game. Adopting Kali's real .zshrc and version-controlling a years-old .bash_aliases file for the first time surfaces a silently-dropped config line, a CLI-name collision, two GitHub auth hurdles, and a prompt that ate a pasted command.