I Tried Out 5 Different Linux Shells, This Is My Experience With Each
thekernalblog.github.ioI want you to think about what terminal shell you use, if you haven’t changed it, it is most likely that you use Bash. While Bash is the one that most Linux distro’s use, there are may other shells that have their own unique features. For the purposes of testing, I used 5 different shells, and I am going to give a review of the Bash, Fish, Zsh, Dash, and Ksh Shells.
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Was expecting a bit more indepth analysis but this is good too
Fish is by far my favorite shell at the moment. I find it does contextual autocompletion a lot better than any other shell I’ve tried.
Same, fish is my fav. Fish + starship is a really great combo for terms.
oh thanks for the heads up, I haven’t looked at starship yet :)
Fish is my favorite. I can barely do without it. Only downside is some bash commands don’t work on it without modification.
But I’m also having a ton of fun right now with xonsh which lets you use python and bash together.
indeed, a very short description for a bunch of shells. Could be more verbose…
As @mieum mentioned, FreeBSD does not ship with
zshby default. The user chooses their preferred shell when setting up:csh,tcsh, andshare the options.Also, there are several distinct versions of
ksh. Adding which version (of each shell) you tried would be helpful as well.I thought on FreeBSD
tcshwas default for root andshwas default for other users. Also never realized anyone useddashas a login shell :b/bin/sh is just a symlink to the default shell which usually is dash for root on linux
I think the default shell is very distro dependent. Ubuntu-based distros typically use dash, Arch Linux uses bash, and Alpine Linux uses BusyBox’s compiled in ash shell.
I believe the original Almquist shell is used on FreeBSD. I know on Debian dash is the sh implementation (afterall it is Debian Almquist Shell), but the default login shell for the root user is bash apparently.
/bin/sh historically used to be an actual shell(the Bourne shell*), but now by default it points to one set by the distro’s devs. Almquist shell was an alternative developed with a BSD license and i guess its still used
Cool article, I would like a more in depth technical thing. But still liked it.
Linux is for fucking losers anyway. Switch to Mac