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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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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

Fish for interactive shell. “It depends” for scripting, but usually ends up Bash since it is the NixOS default.

[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Bash is my favourite one, second to it being Fish

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 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).

[–] DarkNoul@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago
[–] sntx@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago
[–] TheV2@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 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.

[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Zsh with powerlevel10k + a few plugins

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 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

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

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

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

[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PowerShell, with zsh being a close second

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PowerShell, because of autocomplete and shift+arrows select.

[–] Tovervlag@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

I often end up in ps because I'm more familiar with it. But only if I have to do some scripting or so.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 5 months ago

Zsh on workstations. Bash on servers.

[–] wargreymon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Microsoft copilot

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