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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:50:26 -0500
From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: bash-2.04 programmable completion
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> <grin> But great programmers never re-invent the wheel.  What are the
> remaining valid reasons why people would prefer bash over zsh?  (I
> don't count inertia as valid :-)

It's compatible enough to impersonate a POSIX /bin/sh, for one thing.