Thompson shell

ash, shares shared history with dash, integrated into busybox, default shell in alpine

toybox's shell, toybox's equivalent of busybox's ash

tcsh, a shell often found in BSDs for interactive usage by default

love the ash image lol

alias Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma="sudo rm -rf /"

(I don't think it actually works this way in ksh but I already spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the command to get root privileges in ksh and that's already too much time for this dumb joke.)

I remember making that joke on Lemmy and someone calling me immature lol.

That's what they looked like???

There's probably only two people who will get this joke... and I'm one of them.

do tcsh

Similarly ksh

I was looking for a mention of csh! Senior sysadmin at $DAYJOB uses it still.

Yeah, that's where this meme fails. BASH is the default and has been for decades. Most people are not Gigachad.

I'll accept FISH as being for babies, Zsh as being for Emo types or extra nerdy people. SH being for white beards makes sense.

BASH is:

Yeah, I agree. It's quirky, its syntax is annoying, and a good ZSH setup is probably better... but I don't have the time to do an actual ZSH setup.

I'm not learning shit that can't run on everything.

Source : I got a fistfull of salesforce certs in order to toe the line in my previous job, and I am currently looking for work.

I use bash because gentoo's portage has a hard dependency on it so in my mind it doesn't make much sense to install and keep yet another shell just because colors and autocompletion. If they ever get rid of the bashisms in portage I'd surely consider moving to fish, but getting rid of the bashisms in portage means that portage could be ported to the BSDs one more time and we could have Gentoo/BSD again

Powershell is probably simultaneously the best and worst thing Microsoft has ever created

Get-OutOfHere

Then give nushell a go. It's basically a modern implementation of some of the better ideas Powershell had.

This but unironically

Big oof

Unironically though. It takes time because it's structurally different than python but it's fun when you figure it out

It even kind of suck as a Windows-only shell...

Careful brother, they are not ready for the truth.

You lost me at "helix better than nvim and emacs"

Jj better then git A LOT

Wow, you spelled mercurial really wrong

still don't really get along with jj. and why use a tmux-alike when konsole has the same functionality built in?

JJ lacks too many features compared to git, it's easier to use but just less powerful. I think Helix and Zellij are good for that "batteries included" approach, but neovim and tmux are more powerful and allow much more customization IMO so those tools don't displace them for me. I think shell choices are less impactful, if you're writing scripts 90% of the time it'll have to be bash anyway, use what you like for the interactive shell though.

Yes! Helix is such a good editor that doesn't get enough praise.

You can always just continue using bash scripting, with a bash shebang in your scripts, if you miss it

I've been using it for awhile now for the same reason, and think I'm going to switch back to sh as it has too many suggestions which I read and it interrupts my thoughts and slows me down.

I like having fish as an option, but don't think I'd ever use it as my default.

If I have a long command that uses long filenames, or I don't remember the syntax of something, I can just type "fish" and it'll open up a fish shell.

All we ask of you is that you don't reheat it in the employee break room microwave.

Akchually, those are shells, not terminal emulators.

Which I guess confirms that you really don't care. Whatever works for you, works for you :)

Yesh, I'm a not spending time configuring (and fixing) the shell.

If I want something hairy I'll use Python (or even C/C++).