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Comment by 🚀 սյունեցի

Re: "Curious what other OpenBSD users use as their main shell?"

In: s/OpenBSD

I live with a FreeBSD contributor/nerd so decided to poll instead of him seing what he uses: mostly bash and /bin/sh for coding (:

🚀 սյունեցի

2023-08-14 · 3 months ago

Poll Results

1. ksh

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2. bash

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3. other (pls comment)

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16 votes were cast.

11 Later Comments ↓

☕️ johan

I run bash on my openbsd router/firewall machine but I daily drive fish on my linux machines. The autocompletion on fish is legendary

🐐 drh3xx

@Morgan I get that you can use a mix of shells for scripting but I'm tending toward minimalism nowadays so prefer one tool for one job.

🐐 drh3xx

@սյունեցի thanks for the comment :)

🐐 drh3xx

Thanks @johan I've been hearing about fish a fair bit the past year or so.

☕️ Morgan

@drh3xx I do often use fish (and sometimes bash) for one liners, but beyond that I usually fire up Dart, it's easy enough to write and also easy to hit high I/O throughput, often desirable for scripts, thanks to async/await; I think some Geminauts like go which I guess gets you a similarly huge performance boost thanks to goroutines.

👤 benk

I didn't know ksh really had people using it anymore. It was advanced for its time but seems like kind of an oddball now. Of course, FreeBSD defaults to tcsh, so I'm not one to talk lol. I figured some people would use zsh out of personal preference/choice. I guess the cool shell is fish now

2023-08-18 · 3 months ago

🐐 drh3xx

@benk thanks for the input. I'm kinda surprised to be honest that more OpenBSD users aren't sticking with the default ksh. I guess it depends on their use case and most people are just answering from a server/desktop perspective. I wonder if folks are more inclinded to stick to defaults on routers, firewallls etc...

😈 dev1ls

sometime fish.. but ksh its ok.. i dont need more..

2023-08-21 · 2 months ago

🐐 drh3xx

Thanks for the input @dev1ls :)

2023-08-23 · 2 months ago

🚀 anthk_gem

ksh

2023-10-12 · 3 weeks ago

🐐 drh3xx

@anthk_gem thanks for the vote.

2023-10-17 · 3 weeks ago

Original Post

🌒 s/OpenBSD

Curious what other OpenBSD users use as their main shell?

💬 drh3xx · 17 comments · 2023-08-13 · 3 months ago · 🗳️