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zsh or fish for an intermediate Linux user? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by zaphodb2002 to c/[email protected]

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So I've been using Linux now for a while, and am looking to migrate my dev environment to vim and spend more time in the command line. I'm fairly comfortable with bash but by no means an expert. I've used zsh with some minor customization but just recently learned about fish. I'd love to hear people's opinions.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ZSH, ZSH, ZSH! Fish is not POSIX compliant, meaning most shell scripts won't work and it has its own special snowflake syntax.

Also, don't use Oh-My-ZSH! Just use the package manager in your system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you can always run scripts with the shell they were written for (and you can even argue that people writing scripts should always set the shebang)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are also plugins like bass and replay.fish which do help with most of the work, if you ever need it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

If I have to switch shells all the time when another shell, zsh has the same functionality as fish, without the switching around, I'll use that. Not to mention fish causes flatpak to not add Flatpaks to the app menu until restart. Environment variable messes. If I have to install a bunch of other stuff to make fish work, vs make zsh work more nicely, I'll pick the 2nd one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

meaning most shell scripts won't work

What do you even mean? I run my bash script on Fish shell. No problem. Just need indicate the shebang at the top of the shell script.

unless you want to run zsh/bash commands in cli mode - that's a different story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like oh-my-zsh what are the downsides of using it?