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[–] TCB13 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why do people keep creating new shells when bash is mostly okay?

[–] spongeborgcubepants 9 points 10 months ago

Why create anything new or different?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

fieh and nushell actually offer something new, and zsh is just a better bash if you want that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There's a massive number of security holes in bash, shellshock being the most egregious. bash has some really terrible design flaws, especially parsing $var multiple times so you can't reliably break on spaces. Almost any other shell is safer and more productive.