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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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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I'll probably give it a spin anyway, might be I find some benefit and it looks like an interesting project. Being Rust based instead of C# .NET based could theoretically make it a lot faster (though I've not really had an issue of speed in PowerShell)

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[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago
[–] TheV2@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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).

[–] DarkNoul@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Bash is my favourite one, second to it being Fish

[–] sntx@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago
[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Zsh with powerlevel10k + a few plugins

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PowerShell, with zsh being a close second

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PowerShell, because of autocomplete and shift+arrows select.

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 2 years ago

Zsh on workstations. Bash on servers.

[–] t0mri@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fish & dash.

[–] wargreymon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Microsoft copilot

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

While fish is easy to set up, I can't even be arsed to do that most times, so bash ends up being the one I use most.

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