Shell of the Year
 

A new category this year.

--jeremy

What gives? I come to this post and it says "thanks for voting" even though I didn't vote or even see a poll?

Voting hadn't been opened yet.

--jeremy

Most definitely Bash...

Eterm..Xterm..Aterm....?

For the language BASH

For the terminal aterm.

I think bash will win this one because many people don't seem to experiment with other shells. Anyway my vote goes to zsh because its tab completion features are just awesome.

How are these shells? What do they display if there's
no actual shell installed on your system? ;}

Bash until I use something different.

Paris Hilton (she's a shell of a person after all the coke and guys she's had) :D

Sorry, I couldn't resist!!

KimVette - c'mon, you know better than that. For everyone, before posting ask yourself the following question: am I adding to the thread by posting my words and are my words useful in the context of the thread?

zsh is trully the best of breed :)

Never bothered installing other shells than bash

nothing else like bash;)

bash the last answer

until i experiment in that area, bash.

have used zsh, and like it but i havent used it alot.

/weed

I love zsh's right-prompt, and I'd use it (again) in a minute, if I could just figure out how to get zsh to do a reverse search with the already entered line instead of 'previous history entry' for arrow-up.

I just can't live without it in my shell (bash) and my vim. Oh, in case anyone *doesn't* have it enabled. Try this in your .inputrc:
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

Then, start a new term - enter:
ls<arrow up>
and only the commands starting with ls get displayed.

*grin* Good point!

While we're speaking of rules:

RFC 1855: calls for 4-lines @ 75-characters-per-line "signature" block added by the sender of a post.

YOU are breaking RFC rules by having that humongous Sig of 12 lines. It should be a post rather than a sig.


Have a nice day.

Bash for me

If this were email you might have a point where the RFC is concerned.

Have a nice day. :D

BASH maybe becuase that is all I have used...

csh ... never tried zsh, maybe I'll take a look this weekend when I've more time..

Ya it should be bash

Bash.The only I have used.

I use bash on linux, and tcsh if I'm on *BSD

I prefer ksh. First off its available on Unix out of the box and secondly all my scripting knowledge is based on it (i.e. I'm just too lazy to think learning bash differences is worth the time - for anything more sophisticated than ksh I'd likely do Perl.)

Typically I'll install it on my Linux distros rather than use bash.

My initial reluctance to using bash came from the fact it didn't use esc-k for command lookups but since one can do "set -o vi" to make it do that its now just inertia. :rolleyes:

my vote for bash
 

Bash for me! I've only used bash so far and I think it's quite powerful. I don't know what features other shells have but I'm somehow sure bash has them too, it's probably just in another form or slightly different.
Why is bash used by default in most distro's anyway?
If people prefer bash and keep moving to bash then surely it will evolve to the users demands.
It would be nice to exist a universal shell and of course features from other shells can be borrowed.
I think it is not that some shell is better because people that made them have great ideas, it is that they don't all work together.
These wore my thoughts. If you think it's all crap then just consider I vote for bash.

Bash! (What else?)

I'd say Korn.

Bash Best Ever

Bash obvious

all worship the mighty bash!

I'll bash you!

Seriously, zsh is really cool, but I still find myself using bash all the time.

My experience with others beside the Bourne-Again Shell is insufficient for a reasonable reply, so I won't answer this one.

88 character post, 754 sig ...

I definitely think he has a valid point ;) Your ratio is quite bad,
validity of RFCs on forums aside.


Cheers,
Tink

fish shell? roo.no-ip.org/fish

Started off with sh, then csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh and lastly bash for the past few years.

bash makes a sys admins life easy, both usage and scripting. Haven't come across anything more powerful yet.

For a Lxer,of course,bash!Because many distros use bash for default,and it is easy to use and script.

good lord that was cheesy. You're a punny person.

Snap!
[/QUOTE]
...neither could I :-)

KDE all the way for me :) Like others on here, I have tryed so many different window managers, and none of them have grabbed my full attention.:eek:
You can make any window manager look pretty, but when it comes down to usability - KDE is on top of my list. :cool:

Damn :tisk: I could of sworn i posted this on another poll ignore this post sorry:(

Definitely Bash

silly shell question
 

Okay, this question is like trying to compare a model T ford, stutz-bearcat, '55 T-bird, '67 vet, and a '71 mustang with a 2006 BMW 500 series. Of course Bash is the best shell. It is the newest and most complete of the shells. Maybe it has something to do with it being the standard shell of Linux, the most popular of the UNIX like OSes.

BASH i'm still a newbie but get on it ;)

bash. First thing I started when SuSE finished installing :)

How do Bash and Zsh differ?

See:

http://zsh.sunsite.dk/FAQ/zshfaq02.html#l14

The section "Similarities to bash" talks about that and some differences.

One difference they didn't mention there:
One starts with the first 2 letters of the alphabet and the other starts with the last letter of the alphabet. :D

bash is definitely the best :cool: