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Re:What's your favorite OS feature of all time? by SwellJoe on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @04:58PM (#2199532)
This was instantly what came to mind for me, followed by tab completion in the shell (expanded by the bash-completion package to become utter perfection).
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Re:What's your favorite OS feature of all time? by stsmytherie on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @05:09PM (#2199580)
Tab completion is a good one! According to Wikipedia, "one of the first examples appeared in the Berkeley Timesharing System for the SDS 940" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_completion).
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Re:What's your favorite OS feature of all time? by _b8r0 on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @05:57PM (#2199745)
Utter perfection is unfortunately limited to ZShell's bash completion, but I know what you mean - I experience it every time I log into a Solaris box and have to use CSH.

Don't get me wrong, Cshell is good too syntactically speaking, but the completion on Solaris 8 is a little, meh.

BTW - we have a dojo with different versions of Solaris going back to god knows when, that's why I'm using CSH - would not use Solaris 8 in production anymore.

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