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Not wanting to learn a new shell, is there any movement in the bash community to implement some of these features?

I haven't seen any user-visible new features in bash the last couple of years, so wouldn't count on it. (see http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/NEWS)

On the other hand I'm slowly migrating to ipython shell as the main login shell. Since every other terminal I open runs ipython, that makes sense. It also lets me script a lot of stuff without the crazy *sh syntax.

Off the top of my head didn't bash4 include multiple globs? ie * * (no space...formatting)

Sorry - by user-visible, I meant actually the stuff that "normal" users see, not the shell programming bits. Those are polished all the time of course. Magic symbols and internal functions change all the time with new exciting ways to do basic process calling (</sarcasm>). But on the outside, it's still same old bash you run 2 years ago - no major usability improvements.

there's a lot of action going on in zsh at the minute, see: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

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