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Comment by ☕️ johan

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

In: s/OpenBSD

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

☕️ johan

Aug 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.

10 Later Comments ↓

🐐 drh3xx · Aug 14 at 19:34:

@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 · Aug 14 at 19:41:

@սյունեցի thanks for the comment :)

🐐 drh3xx · Aug 14 at 19:46:

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

☕️ Morgan · Aug 14 at 20:24:

@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 · Aug 18 at 08:50:

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

🐐 drh3xx · Aug 18 at 12:02:

@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 · Aug 21 at 12:30:

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

🐐 drh3xx · Aug 23 at 20:49:

Thanks for the input @dev1ls :)

🚀 anthk_gem · Oct 12 at 12:03:

ksh

🐐 drh3xx · Oct 17 at 08:19:

@anthk_gem thanks for the vote.

Original Post

🌒 s/OpenBSD

Curious what other OpenBSD users use as their main shell?

💬 drh3xx · 17 comments · Aug 13 · 3 months ago · 🗳️