What do you advice for shell usage?
- Do you use bash? If not, which one do you use? zsh, fish? Why do you do it?
- Do you write
#!/bin/bash
or#!/bin/sh
? Do you write fish exclusive scripts? - Do you have two folders, one for proven commands and one for experimental?
- Do you publish/ share those commands?
- Do you sync the folder between your server and your workstation?
- What should've people told you what to do/ use?
- good practice?
- general advice?
- is it bad practice to create a handful of commands like
podup
andpoddown
that replacepodman compose up -d
andpodman compose down
orpodlog
aspodman logs -f --tail 20 $1
orpodenter
forpodman exec -it "$1" /bin/sh
?
Background
I started bookmarking every somewhat useful website. Whenever I search for something for a second time, it'll popup as the first search result. I often search for the same linux commands as well. When I moved to atomic Fedora, I had to search for rpm-ostree
(POV: it was a horrible command for me, as a new user, to remember) or sudo ostree admin pin 0
. Usually, I bookmark the website and can get back to it. One day, I started putting everything into a .bashrc
file. Sooner rather than later I discovered that I could simply add ~/bin
to my $PATH
variable and put many useful scripts or commands into it.
For the most part I simply used bash. I knew that you could somehow extend it but I never did. Recently, I switched to fish because it has tab completion. It is awesome and I should've had completion years ago. This is a game changer for me.
I hated that bash would write the whole path and I was annoyed by it. I added PS1="$ "
to my ~/.bashrc
file. When I need to know the path, I simply type pwd
. Recently, I found starship which has themes and adds another line just for the path. It colorizes the output and highlights whenever I'm in a toolbox/distrobox. It is awesome.
A folder
dotfiles
as git repository and adotfiles/install
that soft links all configurations into their places.Two files,
~/.zshrc
(without secrets, could be shared) and another for secrets (sourced by.zshrc
if exist secrets).This is the way!
why?
because bash isn’t always in
/usr/bin/bash
.On macOS the version on
/usr/bin/bash
is very old (bash 3 I think?), so many users install a newer version with homebrew which ends up in PATH, which/usr/bin/env
looks at.Protip: I start every bash script with the following two lines:
set -e makes the script exit if any command (that’s not part of things like if-statements) exits with a non-zero exit code
set -u makes the script exit when it tries to use undefined variables
set -o pipefail will make the exit code of the pipeline have the rightmost non-zero exit status of the pipeline, instead of always the rightmost command.
Nice, thx!
/bin/sh
is always/bin/sh
.