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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

these are really bad band names

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

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

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

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

I mean...

get-command *mycommand* | format-table

Isnt that hard to remember is it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It ruins my joke about the overly verbose commands though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

Well, thanks for the info and the thumbnail!

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

csh/tcsh (not anymore, I use zsh)

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

[–] tuto193 9 points 1 year ago

Where is "nu" though?

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

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

[–] xantoxis 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] hperrin 5 points 1 year ago

fish best shell

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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

Most def. So does dash.

[–] kender242 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TCB13 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] spongeborgcubepants 9 points 1 year ago

Why create anything new or different?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.