[SOLVED] switched from bash to zsh

mutt -z -f =mbox works in bash.
in zsh I have to escape the = sign otherwise it says file not found.
Any idea why the difference?

Why the switch? What's wrong with bash?

why the difference?
because it is a completely different shell type.
zsh != bash
now you got a learn zsh, or as one said, Why the switch? What's wrong with bash?

A brief web search said something I didn’t completely understand about zsh treating = as defining the following word as a command. Start with the zsh man pages.

Originally Posted by BW-userx why the difference? because it is a completely different shell type. zsh != bash now you got a learn zsh, or as one said, Why the switch? What's wrong with bash?

Apple just announced that they were making zsh the default shell on OSX. (Anything it takes for Apple to be "different", eh?) Maybe that was the OP's aim: to become zsh-proficient before his next Macbook update at work throws him/her for a loop. With more and more Linux-using sites handing out Macbooks to their Linux administrators, there's going to be a lot of uproar about that. Hopefully they'll be leaving bash on the OS, though. Otherwise I predict a lot "brew install bash" commands being executed.

Originally Posted by rnturn Apple just announced that they were making zsh the default shell on OSX. (Anything it takes for Apple to be "different", eh?) Maybe that was the OP's aim: to become zsh-proficient before his next Macbook update at work throws him/her for a loop. With more and more Linux-using sites handing out Macbooks to their Linux administrators, there's going to be a lot of uproar about that. Hopefully they'll be leaving bash on the OS, though. Otherwise I predict a lot "brew install bash" commands being executed.

I never looked into it until just NOW.
What is ZSH, and Why Should You Use It Instead of Bash?

seems to have little quirts as a result of what that says about it.


How to Customize your Terminal with ZSH

so my question is can only one terminal emulator be made to use just zsh and others bash or whatever else ?

Just switch to c what I c, about 15 minutes ago, bash scripts run. #!/bin/bash of course they should.

 userx@arcooo î‚° ~ î‚° 
zle-line-init:echoti:1: no such terminfo capability: smkx

besides that in some of my terminals. Eterm, mxvrt.

I am not sure about the MUTT thing, I do not use it to test that.

Got it. As scasey said it's to do with = expansion.
I put 'setopt noequals' in my .zshrc file and it now works as expected ( As I expected ).

goood
FYI
if you got a bunch of aliases from bash I found if you put them in a file called .aliases
put this in .zshrc

source $HOME/.aliases

and mine work...

bash seems better.

Originally Posted by jaymar Got it. As scasey said it's to do with = expansion. I put 'setopt noequals' in my .zshrc file and it now works as expected ( As I expected ).

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