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The BEST Shell You’re Not Using - Fish - YouTube (youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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Didn't know about auto populating search queries, abbreviations, string scripting, and using private mode.

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[–] SinTan1729@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It's perfect for daily interactive use, but terrible for scripting. I write almost all my scripts in bash, the only exceptions being convenience scripts for fish itself.

[–] traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I still work with bash scripts from fish (to interoperate with bash users), but it's more like how I use python: the interpreter is specified either in the shebang or explicitly on the cli command invoking the script. It works quite well actually

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