{"id":8385,"date":"2026-09-17T05:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=8385"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:10:22","slug":"zsh-quiz-how-well-do-you-know-your-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=8385","title":{"rendered":"Zsh Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Shell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/content\/images\/2026\/09\/zsh-quiz.png\" alt=\"zshell\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Zsh has become the default shell for a lot of Linux and macOS users, and for good reason. Between Oh My Zsh, autosuggestions, and smarter tab completion, there&#8217;s a lot going on under the hood.<\/p>\n<p>But how much do you actually know about it? Take this quiz and find out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-red\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-emoji\">\ud83d\udea7<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">Some browsers block the JavaScript-based quiz units.\u00a0<b><strong>Disable your ad blocker to enjoy the quizzes and puzzles<\/strong><\/b>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<div class=\"remix-app\" data-hash=\"12d93ba199e0da5a\"><\/div>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>Few people know that Zsh&#8217;s roots go back to 1990, when Paul Falstad created it as a student project. That means, Zsh is older than Linux. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a good amount of time customizing my own zsh setup, and honestly, there&#8217;s more to it than most users realize. Tab completion itself works very differently (or should I say better) from bash. Then there&#8217;s spelling correction, smarter globbing, and configuration through .zshrc that can get as simple or as complex as you want.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxhandbook.com\/learn-zsh\/\">learn Zsh<\/a>, try this resource section on Linux Handbook.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feed.itsfoss.com\/link\/24361\/17464480.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zsh has become the default shell for a lot of Linux and macOS users, and for good reason. Between Oh My Zsh, autosuggestions, and smarter tab completion, there&#8217;s a lot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}