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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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zsh or fish for an intermediate Linux user? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So I've been using Linux now for a while, and am looking to migrate my dev environment to vim and spend more time in the command line. I'm fairly comfortable with bash but by no means an expert. I've used zsh with some minor customization but just recently learned about fish. I'd love to hear people's opinions.

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I guess technically Perl could do but it wont earn you any favors from your coworkers.

I do use Python for higher level stuff but I don't see a point to go Python when you're just gonna call 20 subprocess anyway to do like apt update apt dist-upgrade apt install wget this untar this rsync this. Especially when you can't even assume you're going to have Python to provision the box.

[–] zitronen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

That's why I included Perl, it is always there. Just don't code as if you were in the nineties and Perl is a perfectly legitimate language, even more so for shell tasks. Bad and good doesn't depend so much on the language but the coder.