From the "tiny blogs" department...

Yep, I'm a Zsh fan.  I've always been one and probably won't change.

One of the nifty features of Zsh is the ability to expand wildcards on the command-line in a particular order.  For me, this often comes in handy when combined with some sort of media player.  For example, what if I wanted to watch videos in a directory with MPlayer and start with the most recently modified ones?  Zsh has that covered:

% mplayer *.mp4(oa)

The (oa) tells Zsh to expand '*' to all files in $CWD but to order the expansion by last modified.  There are a few other sort specifiers, but I find 'a' the most useful.  Using a capital 'O' will reverse the sort order.

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