That's what I currently use but I've tested fsh a little and was potentially looking to move. I just have to pull the trigger and see if I regret it or not.
I understood bash. Manual is good, searchable, understandable.
I never understood zsh. Manual is split up in several different man pages, very annoying to find what you're looking for. I never ever understood what I was doing, config wise. Just blindly following convoluted how-to's.
With fish, I finally understand every aspect of my shell again, and it's like 10x simpler than bash. Can be learned completely within 30 minutes or so.
Fish looks cool, but I decided to settle on ble.sh for compatibility reasons. This one deserves some attention too. For me the main motivation was history-based autocomplete.
Blesh adds a lot of functionality that makes bash feel + act like a fancier neoshell, while keeping the same syntax. Also includes a pre-exec hook, which vanilla bash notably lacks.
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lemmyman210@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y
Zsh is also pretty good!
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
That's what I currently use but I've tested fsh a little and was potentially looking to move. I just have to pull the trigger and see if I regret it or not.
victorz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
I went from bash to zsh to fish.
Highly recommend the switch.
chrash0@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
reject POSIX, embrace
nushellvictorz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Fish isn't POSIX...
That said, I tried nushell a couple times and it's pretty cool. Just a big hurdle for right now.
chrash0@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
yeah, but they did reverse course on
; andvs&&to be more POSIX compatible, which is a decision i understand but don’t agree withvictorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Hmm, where did you hear that? I'm reading the manual through relevant parts but I can't find anything regarding those combiners and POSIX compliancy.
Do you have a link perhaps?
chrash0@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
it was years ago. they used to not support
&&, but they added it so people could paste commands into the terminali think this is the PR from 8 years ago 👴: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/4620
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Love the pragmatic discourse in that issue. The suggestion is also really well formulated. Bravo to everyone involved.
LPThinker@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Hell yeah nushell! Truly a life-changing upgrade.
tatterdemalion@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
Porque no los dos?
Cris_Color@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Love me some Fish 😊
hisao@ani.social · 4 pts · 1y
Fish looks cool, but I decided to settle on ble.sh for compatibility reasons. This one deserves some attention too. For me the main motivation was history-based autocomplete.
artiman@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y
that's a command line editor tho fish is a shell?
dgdft@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Blesh adds a lot of functionality that makes bash feel + act like a fancier neoshell, while keeping the same syntax. Also includes a pre-exec hook, which vanilla bash notably lacks.
Highly recommend.
hisao@ani.social · 1 pts · 1y
Yes, but "command line editor" is a confusing term. For me it's "get features of a fancy shell in pure bash".
Olap@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Oh-my-bash. All of the upsides. None of the down
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Fish, so much simplicity you can keep the entire language in your head while scripting.