Was expecting a bit more indepth analysis but this is good too
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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 :)
indeed, a very short description for a bunch of shells. Could be more verbose..
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.
As @mieum mentioned, FreeBSD does not ship with zsh by default. The user chooses their preferred shell when setting up: csh, tcsh, and sh are the options.
Also, there are several distinct versions of ksh. Adding which version (of each shell) you tried would be helpful as well.
You may know Zsh as the default shell for FreeBSD
I thought on FreeBSD tcsh was default for root and sh was default for other users. Also never realized anyone used dash as 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