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Comment by 🐙 norayr

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

In: s/OpenBSD

not an openbsd user, though i like it very much. i think i would use just sh, or bash. maybe ash, if it is available there.

i spend some time to find a shell i would like, and i didn't find such a shell to fall in love and stick with it. they all have horrible syntax for me.

🐙 norayr

Aug 13 · 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.

15 Later Comments ↓

🧶 betabube · Aug 14 at 02:43:

I've used bash the few times I've been on open bsd, because that's what I'm comfy with. But I should really try to stick to the defaults as much as possible. Once I've got a new Thinkcentre Tiny in, I'm moving to open bsd anyway. Let's hope I choose the right shell this time.

🐐 drh3xx · Aug 14 at 06:59:

@betabube @norayr @Morgan thanks for your responses. My main reason for asking is that ksh is the default in OBSD which I've been trying to stick to but given the prevelance of bash on Linux I didn't know if most people switched their default shell to make their life easier when usiing FOSS solutions that primarily target Linux.

☕️ Morgan · Aug 14 at 15:58:

@drh3xx I find it's easy enough to drop into bash from fish if I want it; doesn't happen often, mostly because scripts already specify which shell they need.

🚀 սյունեցի · Aug 14 at 17:12:

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 (:

☕️ johan · Aug 14 at 19:10:

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 · 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 · 🗳️