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What shells do you use and how do you have it configured?

OvermindDL1

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What shells do you use and how do you have it configured?

What shell(s) do you use, why do you use them, and how do you have them configured?

Note, this is about shell’s, not terminals, terminal’s are often what is used to access a shell, but it isn’t the shell.

Some popular and/or modern shells for example are like:

  • sh
  • dash
  • ksh
  • bash
  • zsh
  • fish
  • powershell
  • nushell

among many many others…

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OvermindDL1

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I use zsh primarily, but I’ve been using nushell for various tasks lately.

My ZSH is heavily configured, based on the OhMyZSH plugin pack but with some customizations. I use the starship theme (not the built in one, but the standalone StarShip powerline prompt that works with almost any shell).

Been experimenting with nushell lately, it’s still new and missing some functionality, plus not being a posix shell means its syntax is different, but it seems extremely capable and very fast, plus it’s data operations and piping capabilities and operations (it’s main big thing) is really nice!

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Cellane

Cellane

Been using the Fish shell for quite a few years now in conjunction with Tmux – I always feel uneasy on a new machine/server until I copy over the configuration I’m used to :sweat_smile: This is how my shell looks like:

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ohm

I’ve been using fish with Starship since I got my new MacBook. It works really well. I was using zsh and fish on and off before that.

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