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Elvish vs Zsh

A side-by-side look at Elvish and Zsh. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Elvish

Elvish

Development

Elvish is an expressive, friendly and open shell and scripting language for Linux/UNIX. It combines the convenience of interactive shells with the programmability of scripting languages. Elvish supports handy features like pathname expansion, pipelines, redirections and variables.

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Zsh

Zsh

Os & Utilities

Zsh is a UNIX command line interpreter and scripting language that is compatible with bash but includes many additional features and customization options. It offers powerful tab completion, spelling correction, better globbing, theming, and plugin support.

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