Which Is Your Preferred Linux Shell?

jeremy · 12-06-2013, 12:20 PM

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

druuna · 12-06-2013, 12:54 PM

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.

B4rc0de · 12-06-2013, 02:32 PM

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

Habitual · 12-06-2013, 03:56 PM

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

TobiSGD · 12-06-2013, 07:59 PM

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.

astrogeek · 12-06-2013, 09:04 PM

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.

kooru · 12-06-2013, 11:00 PM

bash but fascinated from zsh

theKbStockpiler · 12-07-2013, 09:20 AM

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.