#309 A Shell-Scripting Story pro

Dec 19, 2011 | 10 minutes | Tools

This episode continues off of the previous episode on Oh My ZSH showing how to script Z Shell. Here I show how to write a Rake autocompletion script and cover a few more useful utilities.

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