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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

What do you advice for shell usage?

  • Do you use bash? If not, which one do you use? zsh, fish? Why do you do it?
  • Do you write #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/sh? Do you write fish exclusive scripts?
  • Do you have two folders, one for proven commands and one for experimental?
  • Do you publish/ share those commands?
  • Do you sync the folder between your server and your workstation?
  • What should've people told you what to do/ use?
  • good practice?
  • general advice?
  • is it bad practice to create a handful of commands like podup and poddown that replace podman compose up -d and podman compose down or podlog as podman logs -f --tail 20 $1 or podenter for podman exec -it "$1" /bin/sh?

Background

I started bookmarking every somewhat useful website. Whenever I search for something for a second time, it'll popup as the first search result. I often search for the same linux commands as well. When I moved to atomic Fedora, I had to search for rpm-ostree (POV: it was a horrible command for me, as a new user, to remember) or sudo ostree admin pin 0. Usually, I bookmark the website and can get back to it. One day, I started putting everything into a .bashrc file. Sooner rather than later I discovered that I could simply add ~/bin to my $PATH variable and put many useful scripts or commands into it.

For the most part I simply used bash. I knew that you could somehow extend it but I never did. Recently, I switched to fish because it has tab completion. It is awesome and I should've had completion years ago. This is a game changer for me.

I hated that bash would write the whole path and I was annoyed by it. I added PS1="$ " to my ~/.bashrc file. When I need to know the path, I simply type pwd. Recently, I found starship which has themes and adds another line just for the path. It colorizes the output and highlights whenever I'm in a toolbox/distrobox. It is awesome.

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[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 7 months ago

I use bash and I usually put /bin/bash in my scrtipts, because that's where I know it works. /bin/sh is only if it works on many/all shells.

I don't have many such scripts, so I just have one. I don't really share them, as they are made for my usecase. If I do create something that I think will help others, then yes, I share them in git somewhere.

I do have a scripts folder in my Nextcloud that I sync around with useful scripts.

Some of your examples can probably just be made into aliases with alias alias_name="command_to_run".

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

thx! Why do you think that aliases are better for it?

I moved away from aliases because I have a neat command management where each command is one script.

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 7 months ago

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, it's just one file to backup to keep all your custom commands (.bashrc) while it would be many files if you have a script for each.

I can't see the benefit of having a script for just one command (with arguments) unless those arguments contain variables.

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