Where fish?
🐟
where nushell, xonsh, rush, yash, dash, powershell, oil, elvish?
these are really bad band names
We don’t talk about the red-headed step-child PowerShell.
Clever but really verbose incantations that no-one can remember.
Even more biased towards the English-speaking set of command-line Wizards than the standard fare!
Just use the List-And-Display-Available-Relevant-Commands-Formatted-As-Table commandlet. Couldn’t be easier.
Where is “nu” though?
csh/tcsh (not anymore, I use zsh)
scsh (more usable scripting than interactive), with the best acknowledgments
tcsh also! I used it a lot uhhhh last century
I’ve been eyeing Wizard with a Gun for a minute, maybe this is a sign
Hah, I remember using ksh on an old IBM AIX box.
fish best shell
I made a quick (not an exaggeration. I was sloppy with my trimming and filling in the text) 128x128 discord emoji out of this, for those who care:
Why do people keep creating new shells when bash is mostly okay?
fieh and nushell actually offer something new, and zsh is just a better bash if you want that
There’s a massive number of security holes in bash, shellshock being the most egregious. bash has some really terrible design flaws, especially parsing $var multiple times so you can’t reliably break on spaces. Almost any other shell is safer and more productive.
Why create anything new or different?
This screams Dresden Files.
Outlaw Star needs to be in here somewhere…
with a dry cool wit like that, gandalf could be an action hero
Read the dresden files, that’s pretty much its main conceit
Does ash count?
Most def. So does
dash.
Don’t forget pwsh! 🤪
Instead of putting the onus on you, I let ChatGPT do the heavy lifting… of some answers adjacent to the one I wanted. Yes I was being kinda lazy.
