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Comment by ☕️ Morgan

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

In: s/OpenBSD

@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.

☕️ Morgan

2023-08-14 · 9 months ago

Poll Results

1. ksh

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2. bash

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3. other (pls comment)

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17 votes were cast.

13 Later Comments ↓

🚀 սյունեցի · 2023-08-14 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 · 2023-08-14 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 [OP/mod] · 2023-08-14 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 [OP/mod] · 2023-08-14 at 19:41:

@սյունեցի thanks for the comment :)

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-08-14 at 19:46:

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

☕️ Morgan · 2023-08-14 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 · 2023-08-18 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 [OP/mod] · 2023-08-18 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 · 2023-08-21 at 12:30:

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

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-08-23 at 20:49:

Thanks for the input @dev1ls :)

🚀 anthk_gem · 2023-10-12 at 12:03:

ksh

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-10-17 at 08:19:

@anthk_gem thanks for the vote.

😎 decant · Apr 09 at 01:32:

ksh for root admin, fish for regular use

Original Post

🌒 s/OpenBSD

Curious what other OpenBSD users use as their main shell?

💬 drh3xx [mod] · 18 comments · 2023-08-13 · 9 months ago · 🗳️