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Shells OP 03/30/15 (Mon) 14:49:04 No.677

What was /gentoo/'s first shell? Do you still use it?

bashfag here. It's been years, and I still haven't given any alternatives a serious try.

Also, shells general.

Anonymous 03/30/15 (Mon) 16:51:47 No.678

My first shell was bash like yourself then I switched to openbsd shell and 9front rc shell. I cant go back.

Anonymous 03/30/15 (Mon) 18:02:52 No.679

>>677
I started with bash and now I use zsh, although I really don't know why given that it's even more awkward, autocomplete aside. I should really move to something that ditches the sh baggage, the one written in Go looks interesting.

Anonymous 03/30/15 (Mon) 23:16:58 No.680

If you want to talk about yourself, gb2/tech/

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 11:31:30 No.695

>everybody started with bash

I'm kind of surprised, I thought /gentoo/ would have at least a few DOS refugees.

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 12:03:17 No.697

Something tells me it would be interesting to write a shell, at least conceptually. Boring job control aside, trying to trim down bash's insanity would be pretty fun?

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 19:12:08 No.699

>>697
>trmming down bash
You would be better off writing your own shell from scratch

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 21:06:26 No.700

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>>680
Fuck off faggot

Anonymous 04/04/15 (Sat) 11:41:42 No.701

>>697
>Something tells me it would be interesting to write a shell, at least conceptually

From what I've seen of shells' source code, they actually look extremely tedious - a lot of it is just job control, handling signals, and data structures.

I would think the majority (possibly all) of the fun is in designing the syntax and adding frills (for example, how fish reads man pages for you).

Anonymous 04/04/15 (Sat) 20:41:26 No.702

>>701
Sounds about right. It's something that is just asking to be overengineered.

Anonymous 04/06/15 (Mon) 17:50:17 No.715

Hmm, >>697
>trying to trim down bash's insanity would be pretty fun?

You should try fish. It's shell scripting language is pretty sweet.


function rand_command
	whatis (for i in $PATH
    	ls $i
    end | cat | shuf -n 1)
    end

echo (rand_command)

The indentation I did feels kinda weird, but you get the syntax.

Anonymous 04/06/15 (Mon) 17:55:28 No.716

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>>715
And I just realized the cat command is completely useless here.

Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 13:21:56 No.717

>>715
>You should try fish.
Not him, but I found fish to be a little too friendly.

Especially, but not limited to:
>It corrects bash-isms
In other words, the developers felt that it would be a good idea to parse not only fish syntax, but also bash syntax for the sole purpose of correcting you.
>Web-based configuration
>Opening its documentation in a web browser
Which is just awesome when I want to look up something quickly on my years-old box, or if I'm in text-only mode