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I can't like the fish
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I've never understood the need for fish. The shell experience is basically the same as zsh, and although it's much more pleasant to script for, you miss out on compatibility with POSIX-compliant snippets, and besides, if you're writing long and complicated scripts that need anything more than a handful of scalar variables you should probably be using Python (or Perl if you're an old-school masochist).
The Web site for fish reads:
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
I love them and always will.
i am using ZSH cause Fish is not POSIX compliant,which made it annoying to run scripts without rewriting them.
When is this a problem? What scripts don't use a shebang and/or why does using sh call fish instead of bash or dash?
I have a mild dislike of fish because a few substitutions are different enough that my muscle memory isn't there. (But I also haven't put in serious effort to learn them.)
I think they don't use shebang
Have you run into a specific problem or is this just a hypothetical you're worried about. I see this a lot but haven't ever actually run into it being a concern. If you run a script with #!/bin/sh from a Fish shell, it won't use Fish, it will use whatever you have sh pointing to. (Which shouldn't be Fish, it's usually bash or dash.)
I ran into issues on fish,i don't remember what they are but I think it's no shebang
Ah, I see. If you don't remember, don't sweat. I'm mostly curious just because posix issues is one of the few complaints I hear but I never see anything specific so I'm extremely curious lol. Please don't mistake this as one of those fanboyism moments where people try to say something they like is actually perfect and doesn't have flaws.
My understanding of shebangs is that it isn't your shell doing anything fancy with it, it's your OS (or something, I don't remember exactly, but it's lower level than the shell). So maybe something else borked. But I'm no fish expert, I have some error in some fish thing that prints an error every time I open a new shell that I'm too lazy to troubleshoot lol.
Get-OutOfHere
Powershell is probably simultaneously the best and worst thing Microsoft has ever created
Second best. The best was Active Directory.
Tell that to the Linux folks
I am the Linux folks.
FreeIPA is fine, and I don’t care much about the GPO aspect of Active Directory. But the standardization-by-ubiquity that made it easy for everyone to just follow along and make it so it Just Works has been a godsend.
Yes Microsoft built on the shoulders of giants but trying to make things work with OpenLDAP or the other also-ran directory services was a nightmare.
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Thompson shell (predates Bourne)
scsh (Scheme shell) and closh (Clojure shell)
sash (stand-alone shell)
gash (Guile shell)
ash (Almquist shell)
dash (Debian Almquist shell)
eshell (Emacs shell)
Shells I couldn't think of images for:
- bosh (from SchilyTools)
- tclsh (Tcl shell)
- ion (from Redox OS)
Thompson shell
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I use fish because it was the default in cachyos and decided to give it a fair shake. I like the built in syntax highlighting and fancy autocomplete but I miss bash scripting and built in commands that replace standard commands can be weird sometimes. I have not tried scripting fish, to lazy to learn yet another scripting language, especially if bash is the (almost) de-facto standard.
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.
You can always just continue using bash scripting, with a bash shebang in your scripts, if you miss it
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When I installed freeBSD for the first time, I was so confused when !! didn't work.
imo fish is the best out of the box for me, but I just use bash cause its everywhere
I just wish fish would accept standard bash syntax in addition.
Like, if you can warn me that "this is not how we set vars in fish, do this instead!" then you could also just, you know, do it.
Our last apartment had a microwave that insisted that the off/cancel button was ONLY for the microwave part and NOT the timer part, and if you tried to use it to turn off the timer, would display a message saying "push timer button to turn timer off" (or smth to that effect). I found it infuriating. I told my wife, "if they can program it to sass me, they can program it to turn the damn timer off."
Anyway. I get it.
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Sometimes I think I'm the only linux user who doesn't care about their terminal emulator. I use whatever came installed. I assume it's bash? I don't know, but anything i want to do is supported by all of them.
Akchually, those are shells, not terminal emulators.
Which I guess confirms that you really don't care. Whatever works for you, works for you :)
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