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unbuntu
May 6th, 2006, 05:07 PM
Hi,

I've looked around and haven't found such topic has been posted.

What is your choice for your Linux shell?


* Almquist shell (ash)
* Bourne-Again shell (bash)
* Korn shell (ksh)
* Z shell (zsh)
* C shell (csh)
* TENEX C shell (tcsh)
* fish
* rc, es shell (es)
* scsh (Scheme Shell)
* other

unbuntu
May 6th, 2006, 05:10 PM
For myself, I use tcsh on our school's machines and bash for my own machine.

ComplexNumber
May 6th, 2006, 05:37 PM
i use bash. the z shell (ie zsh) is more capable than bash, but i have no need for the extra features.

ubuntu_demon
May 6th, 2006, 06:36 PM
I use bash. never needed another shell.

unbuntu
May 6th, 2006, 07:57 PM
I figured bash will be the winner, but didn't expect it to be so unanimous.

Anyone checked out fish shell? It looks pretty nice: http://roo.no-ip.org/fish/screenshots.html

christhemonkey
May 6th, 2006, 08:00 PM
Use bash as it came with ubuntu.

Only ever used ash when i (frequently) manage to break my system.
And i much prefer bash.

Dont know why.

IYY
May 6th, 2006, 08:08 PM
I use bash, but I often write simple scripts in sh.

ubuntu_demon
May 6th, 2006, 08:10 PM
I'm curious why people would use another shell. And if it is possible to characterize these people in a couple of ways.

-do they have specific needs ?
-do they want to be different ?
-are they the users who do everything in the terminal except for browsing the web ? Are they the users who read their email in the terminal ?
-are they trying to work as efficiently as possible and succeeding ?
-something else ?

I'm just curious. I've never needed another shell so I've never tried anything other than bash.

ubuntu_demon
May 6th, 2006, 08:13 PM
I use bash, but I often write simple scripts in sh.

/bin/sh links to bash

dabear
May 6th, 2006, 08:14 PM
I use bash and ipython :)

unbuntu
May 6th, 2006, 08:22 PM
I'm curious why people would use another shell. And if it is possible to characterize these people in a couple of groups.

-do they have specific needs ?
-do they want to be different ?
-are they the users who do everything in the terminal except for browsing the web ? Are they the users who read their email in the terminal ?
-are they trying to work as efficiently as possible and succeeding ?
-something else ?

I'm just curious. I've never needed another shell so I've never tried anything other than bash.

Since I voted something besides bash...
Well...on our school's machines, they defaults our login shell to tcsh...and frankly I don't know anything about tcsh...not even now.