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What's your favourite to use? Mine is Fish due to its ease of use and user friendly approach.

Bash is the pepperoni of shell tools being reliable in every field no matter what but I've moved to Fish as I wanted to try something different.

So what's your shell of choice?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've recently migrated to nushell, I don't straight up recommend it because it's not POSIX compliant, so unless you're already familiar with some other she'll I would not use it.

That being said, it's an awesome shell if you deal with structured data constantly, and that's something I do quite often so for me it's a great tool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Just looking at it briefly it looks a lot like PowerShell, any reason to use it over PowerShell?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Never used PowerShell, so I didn't know that it was available for Linux nor open source, since from a quick search both of them seem to be true I guess there's no real reason since both are described very similarly.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Bash is my favourite one, second to it being Fish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Bash. By default it might seem less featureful than zsh.. but bash is a lot more powerful and extensible than some give it credit for. It might be more complex to set it up the way you like it, but once you do it, that configuration can be ported over wherever bash exists (ie. almost everywhere).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Bash, zshell, BusyBox....you don't really need anything else

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I have been enjoying fish a lot over the last few months, but I generally try to use Bash, it makes cross-*NIX administration that much easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

zsh because I've been using it since college and I don't like change

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Zsh with powerlevel10k + a few plugins

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Bash as it is what I'm most familiar with. Having an eye out on the https://amber-lang.com/ that compiles to bash for future scripting purposes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Bash, just because everything else already uses it. That and bashisms have infected nearly all of my scripts as I clumsily bump into the limitations of POSIX string manipulation.

I have found some very fun things with sed branching patterns as a result of these limitations though...

https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Branching-and-flow-control.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

zsh with grml config because I'm too lazy to make my own config.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

POSIX on servers, thinking of switching to POSIX on desktop but that's a bit awkward

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PowerShell, with zsh being a close second

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Feeling risky today, eh? Mind sharing the reasoning behind your extravagant choice?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Bash is my login shell, but I have fish set as the default shell for alacritty

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PowerShell, because of autocomplete and shift+arrows select.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Powershell, but heavily customized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Why the downvotes? Ps is pretty good and it works well on Linux too.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

xterm, because shortcut keys do what they are supposed to.

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Bash because it's default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

xterm is a terminal emulator, not a shell. Anything that produces a terminal-compatible text stream can be started as the first program.

e.g. xterm -e nano, assuming you have the nano editor installed, has no instance of a traditional shell (e.g. bash, zsh) running between the xterm and the editor, but the editor still works.

You could argue that makes the editor itself a shell of sorts, because it's interactive and you can do things with it, but it's still not the xterm that inherits that title.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

IDK if federations doesn't work, I already wrote to another response that I use Bash.
Since the Amiga in the 80's I considered CLI windows and Shell as the same thing,because they kind of were on the Amiga, as there was only 1 shell, and a CLI window was also called Shell. But that was obviously a misunderstanding I just never got quite rid of.

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