I just found out about fish shell a few moments ago. I switched Konsole on KDE to use it instead of bash and am impressed so far. Might install it on the Pihole eventually. Good stuff, just wanted to share. :)
I just found out about fish shell a few moments ago. I switched Konsole on KDE to use it instead of bash and am impressed so far. Might install it on the Pihole eventually. Good stuff, just wanted to share. :)
It’s a very user-friendly shell… except for the posix compliance.
Everyone I know who (still) uses it daily accepts that they have to translate back and forth and still write scripts in bash (or sh).
If you wanna give it a go, by all means. It’s just as easy to switch as to switch back. You can always drop into bash and try a command again too.
I never have to write scripts in bash after having switched to fish. I just write all my scripts in fish. 🤷♂️
It’s unfortunately not that easy when you’re using Linux at your job or want to be able to share your scripts with others…
Like, Bash for scripting is quite cursed, but people will typically still prefer using it over learning a new language.
Not to mention some environments don’t let you install anything other than what’s already on the box. Both sh and bash generally are available.
Ah, good point. In many cases, you also don’t want to install an alternative shell, like if you’re dealing with lots of containers and would need to make Fish available in each one.
Although, I will say that more recent versions of Fish are available as a standalone executable, so you don’t have to install it in the traditional sense. You can probably transfer it together with your script file in most cases. That’s a relatively new/experimental feature of Fish, though, so no idea how well such a workflow goes in practice.
I use Linux for my job but luckily I don’t have to share scripts with anyone. 😌