I hadn't gotten around to reading Remy Sharp's command line book yet, so I bought his terminal training course when he put it on a flash sale. One ...
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
Thanks for the article @denmch . I'm a big fan of the fish shell. I was using zsh before, but then gave fish a try and haven't really looked back. My whole dev setup is here if you're interested.
For switching shells, you can definitely run
chshagain, but if you're in your preferred shell and just need to drop back into bash, you can just runbashand you end up right back in the bash shell.If you're in fish, I use bass to make bash utilities runnable in fish.
Looking forward to your next post!
Great article! I'm a big fan of the Fish Shell, glad to see it being mentioned and used.
I think of Fish not as a beginner shell, but a very advanced one, for when you're ready to stop dealing with the inconsistencies and bloat in other shells. I think of it as advanced because if you ever write shell scripts that you want to be portable, you'll probably have to use something else. After trying bash and zsh for years each, I now write all of my (non-personal) scripts to be POSIX-compliant, but use Fish for my daily driving, and have never been happier!
Wow, I wish I'd read this a few months ago! I tried switching to zsh to follow some tutorials but didn't even know what it was, so switching back to something I was familiar with for regular use was super confusing. These metaphors make everything I was struggling with back then make much more sense, thanks for this article!
Omnium enim rerum principia parva sunt.