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Powershell is probably simultaneously the best and worst thing Microsoft has ever created
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Get-OutOfHere
Then give nushell a go. It's basically a modern implementation of some of the better ideas Powershell had.
What were those?
This but unironically
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Thompson shell (predates Bourne)
scsh (Scheme shell) and closh (Clojure shell)
sash (stand-alone shell)
gash (Guile shell)
ash (Almquist shell)
dash (Debian Almquist shell)
eshell (Emacs shell)
Shells I couldn't think of images for:
- bosh (from SchilyTools)
- tclsh (Tcl shell)
- ion (from Redox OS)
Thompson shell
ash, shares shared history with dash, integrated into busybox, default shell in alpine
toybox's shell, toybox's equivalent of busybox's ash
tcsh, a shell often found in BSDs for interactive usage by default
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alias Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma="sudo rm -rf /"
(I don't think it actually works this way in ksh but I already spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the command to get root privileges in ksh and that's already too much time for this dumb joke.)
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imo fish is the best out of the box for me, but I just use bash cause its everywhere
I just wish fish would accept standard bash syntax in addition.
Like, if you can warn me that "this is not how we set vars in fish, do this instead!" then you could also just, you know, do it.
yea but the posix sh set syntax is atrocious so not supporting it is doing you a favor
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I just wish my local restaurant would accept burger orders in addition.
Like, if you can warn me that "this is a Chinese noodle restaurant, we don't do burger here. Order one of these instead!" then you could also just, you know, make me a burger!
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Yeah, that's where this meme fails. BASH is the default and has been for decades. Most people are not Gigachad.
I'll accept FISH as being for babies, Zsh as being for Emo types or extra nerdy people. SH being for white beards makes sense.
BASH is:
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Yeah, I agree. It's quirky, its syntax is annoying, and a good ZSH setup is probably better... but I don't have the time to do an actual ZSH setup.
A good zsh setup is not better. Thatβs why I switched off of zsh after years, because it was slower, more bloated, and less intuitive than fish. And bash is ten times worse than zsh.
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The Web site for fish reads:
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
I love them and always will.
There's probably only two people who will get this joke... and I'm one of them.
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Sometimes I think I'm the only linux user who doesn't care about their terminal emulator. I use whatever came installed. I assume it's bash? I don't know, but anything i want to do is supported by all of them.
Akchually, those are shells, not terminal emulators.
Which I guess confirms that you really don't care. Whatever works for you, works for you :)
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bash:
Jesus Christ! Its json Bourne Again!
Fish is the best . Do not listen what other says just because it's easy to use does not make it a bad tool
Also helix better then neovim and emacs
And zellij better then tmux
Micro better then nano
Jj better then git A LOT
Careful brother, they are not ready for the truth.
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i am using ZSH cause Fish is not POSIX compliant,which made it annoying to run scripts without rewriting them.
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I use fish because it was the default in cachyos and decided to give it a fair shake. I like the built in syntax highlighting and fancy autocomplete but I miss bash scripting and built in commands that replace standard commands can be weird sometimes. I have not tried scripting fish, to lazy to learn yet another scripting language, especially if bash is the (almost) de-facto standard.
You can always just continue using bash scripting, with a bash shebang in your scripts, if you miss it
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Funny story, in my first years of Linux, I always thought sh was the only way to run downloaded programs in the terminal. I must have seen it on some forum and learned it that way. Much later I learned that I could just type this ./program and run them.
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i use zsh and i've been recently told by a friend that i look like this exact guy
No such thing as a good shell... (I just want something that's both posix-compatible and good)
I use fish as my shell because itβs the easiest to work with, but I basically always script with sh or sometimes bash
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