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?
Fish for an interactive shell, and I’ll often drop back to bash for writing a script. I can never remember how to do basic program flow in fish. Bash scripting is not great, but you can always find an example to remind you of how it goes.
Bash, not because its my favourite but because it’s nearly ubiquitous. I don’t want to have to think about which shell I’m using.
Soft shell tacos are my favorite. Hard shell is ok but there’s nothing like a double wrapped soft taco.
Oh and I just use bash.
Pff, newbie. I bash my tacos!
/s
zsh
zsh, because of highly customizable.
Fish for interactive shell. “It depends” for scripting, but usually ends up Bash since it is the NixOS default.
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).
Fellow Fish user here! 👋🏻
Xonsh. For basic use (running CLI programs with arguments) it works like any other shell, and for other uses it has nice Python syntax (and libraries!). For example, I like not needing a separate calculator program, as I can do maths directly in the shell with an intuitive syntax.
zsh because I’ve been using it since college and I don’t like change
I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.
oksh
PowerShell, because of autocomplete and shift+arrows select.
I often end up in ps because I’m more familiar with it. But only if I have to do some scripting or so.
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
Nushell