No such thing as a good shell... (I just want something that's both posix-compatible and good)
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I use fish as my shell because itβs the easiest to work with, but I basically always script with sh or sometimes bash
I donβt use bash, bash uses me
I've never understood the need for fish. The shell experience is basically the same as zsh, and although it's much more pleasant to script for, you miss out on compatibility with POSIX-compliant snippets, and besides, if you're writing long and complicated scripts that need anything more than a handful of scalar variables you should probably be using Python (or Perl if you're an old-school masochist).
I had nu on my Windows PC and I thought I could get away with it because I hate PowerShell so much, but then IT came and kicked it into quarantine. Now I'm zsh-ing on wsl.
Why didn't I install nu there? Can't remember.
Nerds
telnet
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bash without the bash-completion package
friend brought me some seashells
As a ham-handed individual , I absolutely LOVE fish shell. Started using it like 3 years ago and never looked back.
How do you deal with when the guide has commands that only work in bash
you can run bash scripts in fish. The syntax is bash ./script.sh
Edit: I'm being unhelpful/funny. I just read through the fish manual, and it's so nice and agree that if it was just a bit more bash friendly it would have great uptake
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Heh. Good stuff.
More! ;D I want to see all the shells, characterised so.
... Fish [over[1]]user here. Ooh, good burn. LOL.
[1: Not just user. Overuser. I do most of my scripting in fish. Think that's not overuse yet? ... I even wrote my own text editor in fish.]