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I've never tried anything other than the ol' reliable bash (with fancy bash prompt to make it look pretty), because none of the alternatives ever really appealed to me.

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[-] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago
[-] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

zsh, although I don't remember why I switched from bash

[-] hongdao@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I personally switched because zsh supports a time tracking software, so I can know how long I've been coding... and then never used it for that.

[-] psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Zsh - IIRC Short scripting is a tiny bit less akward and plugin features like autosuggestions work well. But I have switched a long time ago - not sure how bash really compares

I also always wanted to properly migrate to emacs eshell but it doesn't have term capabilities (bc it isn't one) and I have not sat myself down and replaced the workflows I of commands that require it

[-] unicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I use simple old Busybox ash, which comes as default with Alpine Linux :)

No fancy features at all, no bashisms. Not everyone's cup of tea I'm sure, but I like the extreme simplicity.

[-] string_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I used fish for a while and its user experience is awesome! The reason why I stopped using it was that because it is not POSIX compliant it won't run many bash shell scripts, and I found myself having to open zsh and bash a lot for a class I was taking.

[-] hongdao@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Tilix and zsh has been nice, since I wanted to make my shell window a bit transparent, like 85% alpha, just like how it looks.

[-] CjkOvPDwQw@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bash is the default everywhere on the Linux world.There is nothing that I couldn't do in bash that made me change the shell, so I keep the "default"

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I also use bash for this reason. However, I do find bash programming to be quite obtuse. If I was scripting for myself I would use another shell but I usually script for fleets of servers, so since bash is ubiquitous I just use it and jump to Python for anything conplex

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