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cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/5735388

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

where nushell, xonsh, rush, yash, dash, powershell, oil, elvish?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

these are really bad band names

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We don't talk about the red-headed step-child PowerShell.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Clever but really verbose incantations that no-one can remember.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just use the List-And-Display-Available-Relevant-Commands-Formatted-As-Table commandlet. Couldn't be easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean...

get-command *mycommand* | format-table

Isnt that hard to remember is it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It ruins my joke about the overly verbose commands though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Even more biased towards the English-speaking set of command-line Wizards than the standard fare!

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I made a quick (not an exaggeration. I was sloppy with my trimming and filling in the text) 128x128 discord emoji out of this, for those who care:

Alakablam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, let me try this.

Counterspell

Edit: Nice! For anyone else, just copy the link from the source of the comment.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, you can do that with any image. Adding the exclamation point before the link tells Lemmy to embed the image instead. And anything you put in the brackets turns into alt text, which users can view by hovering over the image.

My point was mostly to be able to add it to my discord server (or anywhere that allows custom emoji’s, really.) Since they use a standardized 128x128 image size, it’s just a matter of scaling it down to that and trimming it so it’s transparent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, thanks for the info and the thumbnail!

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

csh/tcsh (not anymore, I use zsh)

scsh (more usable scripting than interactive), with the best acknowledgments

[–] tuto193 9 points 10 months ago

Where is "nu" though?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Instead of putting the onus on you, I let ChatGPT do the heavy lifting… of some answers adjacent to the one I wanted. Yes I was being kinda lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The only reason I can think of to use pwsh.exe is to run it in Wine

[–] xantoxis 5 points 10 months ago

I've been eyeing Wizard with a Gun for a minute, maybe this is a sign

[–] hperrin 5 points 10 months ago

fish best shell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

with a dry cool wit like that, gandalf could be an action hero

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

Read the dresden files, that's pretty much its main conceit

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

Hah, I remember using ksh on an old IBM AIX box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Most def. So does dash.

[–] kender242 2 points 10 months ago

Outlaw Star needs to be in here somewhere....

[–] 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.