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What is your favourite shell to use (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What's your favourite to use? Mine is Fish due to its ease of use and user friendly approach.

Bash is the pepperoni of shell tools being reliable in every field no matter what but I've moved to Fish as I wanted to try something different.

So what's your shell of choice?

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just looking at it briefly it looks a lot like PowerShell, any reason to use it over PowerShell?

[–] zaubentrucker@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's indeed a lot like powershell, but I found it to be much less painful to use for everyday tasks. I can't really put my finger on it, but powershell always felt very clunky and unpredictable to use. With Nushell, I can write pipelines that usually have the desired behavior on the first try. Also, its more convenient in so many different aspects that I can't go back anymore.

The biggest downside is, that it hasn't had a stable release yet. While I haven't encountered any bugs yet, there are often breaking changes with new releases that may break your scripts.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, PowerShell does do things that don't exactly make sense without having some understanding of the underlying dotnet and what the components actually do

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Like I said, never used PowerShell, but yeah, nushell pipes are very intuitive, I've been only using it for a short time but was already able to do very interesting pipes with minor effort