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submitted 5 months ago by Euphoma@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Or any other alternate shells that aren't bash?

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[-] Doorknob@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I tried to use it for admin in a Windows environment, but half the modules I needed wouldn't work in Linux which made it pretty much useless.

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I dont use powershell.
I use ZSH on My Gaming PC cause its POSIX and and has autocorrect and auto complete also with CachyOS They replicate fish features.
I use the Default good'ol bash on my Laptop running Debian that's on Life support because I dont care.
I tried Fish but didnt like the no POSIX compliance(ik they wanna fix POSIX but its annoying)

[-] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

nushell is pretty cool

[-] disco@lemdro.id 2 points 5 months ago

What's wrong with bash? Something missing or not to your liking? It can be configured

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Manipulating data in bash is bad.

[-] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

Base 64 encode all your array variables then decode them when needed

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago
[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

It has atrocious error handling, and there's no reasons why arrays should only be 1D.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe it can, but with fish, it does what I want right out of the box, and I don't have to spend time configuring it.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

i just wish bash had structured data and basic types, that's it

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I do, but only for work. There are certain tasks you can't do easily with just api calls.

I use fish via konsole however I still use bash as my login shell for stability reasons.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

I use zsh on my work computers and fish on my desktop. Zsh is still POSIX compatible so is more bash-like. Fish is nice. When I use bash or zsh I want to use oh-my-zsh but with fish I haven't found myself wanting anything extra like that.

[-] surrealpartisan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I use xonsh.

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