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Or any other alternate shells that aren't bash?

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[–] mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online 3 points 3 weeks ago

My producer and I personally use Bash. We tried zsh, but that didn't treat us very well. Fish is actually pretty nice, though.

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have used powershell on windows and Linux and I really like that the data that is moved through a pipe is encapsulated in objects. But in the end I stuck with zsh.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think you have a surplus apostrophe somewhere... 😏

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

only when dealing with azure for work. otherwise bash/python work just fine and have for me for the last 30 odd years.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I do, but only for work. There are certain tasks you can't do easily with just api calls.

[–] disco@lemdro.id 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What's wrong with bash? Something missing or not to your liking? It can be configured

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Manipulating data in bash is bad.

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Base 64 encode all your array variables then decode them when needed

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

It has atrocious error handling, and there's no reasons why arrays should only be 1D.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe it can, but with fish, it does what I want right out of the box, and I don't have to spend time configuring it.

I use fish via konsole however I still use bash as my login shell for stability reasons.

[–] surrealpartisan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I use xonsh.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I dont use powershell.
I use ZSH on My Gaming PC cause its POSIX and and has autocorrect and auto complete also with CachyOS They replicate fish features.
I use the Default good'ol bash on my Laptop running Debian that's on Life support because I dont care.
I tried Fish but didnt like the no POSIX compliance(ik they wanna fix POSIX but its annoying)

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

I use zsh on my work computers and fish on my desktop. Zsh is still POSIX compatible so is more bash-like. Fish is nice. When I use bash or zsh I want to use oh-my-zsh but with fish I haven't found myself wanting anything extra like that.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

i just wish bash had structured data and basic types, that's it

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