Or any other alternate shells that aren’t bash?
I’ve used powershell in previous jobs and if you learn it really well I cannot deny it is super powerful.
For a college project, a friend of mine somehow made a hexadecimal file dumper with it, with formatting and everything (think like what you would see in wireshark) in one, reasonably long, line of powershell.
However I’m just not a big fan of it personally for syntactical reasons (even with the syntax being super logical) and much prefer bash, or other unix-like native shells. I’ve been thinking about taking
zshfor a spin recently to see what it’s like.I use powershell for some scripting. I’ve been using .net/powershell forever and I know it better than python. If bash can’t handle it in a few lines, and I don’t have to use python, I’ll go powershell.
At work I use powershell to ssh into Linux boxes fairly regularly.
only when dealing with azure for work. otherwise bash/python work just fine and have for me for the last 30 odd years.
Only when I’m doing MS shit for work. Otherwise I find it kind of a pain. I get that some of it’s ideas are nice, but functionally it doesn’t actually do anything for me on unixy systems that bash doesn’t so I don’t. I’m not going to install it on all my servers so using it for scripting doesn’t make sense and I do more Linux admin than MS.
I used to use fish but I’m learning Unix right now and am trying to use only defaults so I can learn freebsd the way it exists on a dvd, so right now I’ve been using the Bourne shell
If you are using FreeBSD, you are probably using the Almquist Shell.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell
BSD has not used Bourne since the 90’s. Bash is of course the “Bourne Again Shell”.
For Linux fans, “dash” is the (Debian Almquist Shell). It is the Linux version of the BSD shell. Dash is the default /usr/bin/sh in Debian and Ubuntu I think. So, pretty close to the same shell as FreeBSD.
That’s the one!
SO much of the documentation I’ve seen refers to the Bourne shell I just assumed thats what I was using!
I use both fish and zsh
somehow
That’s… a big gap. I think I’d just be confused all the time if I had to switch between them.
only for extraordinarily cursed situations where games need it in wine/proton
Zsh is nice, particularly with a couple of plugins
What’s wrong with bash? Something missing or not to your liking? It can be configured
It has atrocious error handling, and there’s no reasons why arrays should only be 1D.
Manipulating data in bash is bad.
Base 64 encode all your array variables then decode them when needed
I use it for some things. It’s good for file batch processing, for example. I could probably do those things in python but I use C# and powershell at work so I know .net better.
I tried to use it for admin in a Windows environment, but half the modules I needed wouldn’t work in Linux which made it pretty much useless.
At work we use it sometimes on Linux because we maintain a script that needs to work on multiple platforms, ps1 did that in this usecase better.
Came down to ps1 on Linux was better and more predictable than bash on windows.
Sadly.
Same, only time we used it is when we needed a script that was running in Windows and Linux, easier to maintain one script that 2 in 2 languages
Basically no one is using powershell on Linux. zsh is popular and i’m using fish.
I use fish
Not that kind of “use!”
