Slowly trying to learn sh while using mostly bash. Convenience is nice and all, but when I encounter something like OpenWRT or Android, I don't like the feeling of speaking a foreign language. Maybe if I can get super familiar with sh, then I might explore prettier or more convenient options, but I really want to know how to deal with the most universal shell.
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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.
Just looking at it briefly it looks a lot like PowerShell, any reason to use it over PowerShell?
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.
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)
It's indeed a lot like powershell, but I found it to be much less painful to use for everyday tasks. I can't really put my finger on it, but powershell always felt very clunky and unpredictable to use. With Nushell, I can write pipelines that usually have the desired behavior on the first try. Also, its more convenient in so many different aspects that I can't go back anymore.
The biggest downside is, that it hasn't had a stable release yet. While I haven't encountered any bugs yet, there are often breaking changes with new releases that may break your scripts.
Yeah, PowerShell does do things that don't exactly make sense without having some understanding of the underlying dotnet and what the components actually do
Like I said, never used PowerShell, but yeah, nushell pipes are very intuitive, I've been only using it for a short time but was already able to do very interesting pipes with minor effort
Bash is my favourite one, second to it being Fish
I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.
oksh
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).
Bash, zshell, BusyBox....you don't really need anything else
Nushell
Bash
Zsh with powerlevel10k + a few plugins
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.
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.
zsh because I've been using it since college and I don't like change
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
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
PowerShell, with zsh being a close second
Feeling risky today, eh? Mind sharing the reasoning behind your extravagant choice?
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xterm+zsh
POSIX on servers, thinking of switching to POSIX on desktop but that's a bit awkward
Powershell, but heavily customized.
Why the downvotes? Ps is pretty good and it works well on Linux too.
At the moment I'm using zsh with powerlevel10k. But powerlevel10k is not really supported anymore, and seems to be basically on life support. While it still works for now, I have been thinking of switching over to fish. But the lack of posix compatibility is holding me back a bit.
I have customized ZSH to be very similar to Fish