Which Is Your Preferred Linux Shell?
 

Based on feedback in this thread, the official LQ polls continue.

Learned scripting using the Korn shell (ksh93) on Unix machines, started using Bash when Linux became available.

I do like Bash (4+), but I rather use Ksh when the newer bash version isn't present and more complicated things need to be scripted. For simple(r) things I tend to use Bash.

I can't choose both, so Bash it is.

Bash of course. It's the foundation of linux.

"there are dark corners in the Bourne shell, and I use all of them"

Zsh. Very good tab-completion and I really like the widgets and plugin system.

http://slackeee.de/stuff/zsh.png
Zsh in vi-mode, with plugin for syntax-highlighting, widget for indicating which mode I am in embedded in a prompt on the right side that auto-hides when the command gets too long, and the inbuilt menusystem for tab-completion.

I use bash because... just because...

Mainly I think because I have learned how bash starts and have adapted all my boxen to rely somewhat on "my own" /etc/bashrc, /etc/bash_completon.d/, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, etc., etc.

But because I am a Slackware user I have picked up the habit of writing scripts for sh, which I think is worthwhile.

bash but fascinated from zsh

It seems that most of my linux installs have buggy bash behavior but I dread trying to learn something in Linux that is not the most popular and not as thoroughly documented.

I use what I'm given, provided it works, so I use bash. The only distro I've noticed that defaults to something else is Arios, with zsh.

grml, a distro based on Debian, aiming at sysadmins, also uses Zsh as default.

Bash as its the only shell ive had the chance to learn.

BASH

Zsh with oh-my-zsh.

Bash. Because I haven't got round to trying/learning the alternatives yet.

bash because it's easier.