<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">After hearing on the recent Destination Linux episode, i gave fish a try too.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>I've been using fish for about a month now. It is really nice to use as a lot of things I spend time on adding/changing to Bash I end up having as default with fish.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I added some things like history searching with the PageUp/PageDown buttons, and history saving after each command. But I really like how smart the tab-completion is.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I started using it on some of my production servers to save time when I am working. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Though fish scripts are a bit different from bash scripts. So it's not exactly a drop in replacement.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I say try it out unless you are using bash scripts and are too lazy to type "bash <script name>"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~ Jared</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Paul <pahool@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 9/28/20 11:01 AM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <nmglug@lists.nmglug.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [nmglug] Favorite Shell? </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">I've just found I've defaulted to bash for the same reason I default to vim as a text editor: ubiquity. But I keep meaning to spend a month using fish as my default to get used to it. It seems to have a lot of cool features. Isn't Kali Linux now shipping zsh as the default shell?<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:28 AM William Pearson <<a href="mailto:riffraffdj@gmail.com">riffraffdj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">So, been trying out Fish and been enjoying it so far. Got me wondering what people's favorite Shell is and why?<div><br></div><div>Will</div></div>
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