- cross-posted to:
- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/5735388
Counterspell this
Why do people keep creating new shells when bash is mostly okay?
Why create anything new or different?
Where fish?
🐟
where nushell, xonsh, rush, yash, dash, powershell, oil, elvish?
these are really bad band names
tcsh also! I used it a lot uhhhh last century
csh/tcsh (not anymore, I use zsh)
scsh (more usable scripting than interactive), with the best acknowledgments
Hah, I remember using ksh on an old IBM AIX box.
with a dry cool wit like that, gandalf could be an action hero
Read the dresden files, that’s pretty much its main conceit
We don’t talk about the red-headed step-child PowerShell.
Clever but really verbose incantations that no-one can remember.
Even more biased towards the English-speaking set of command-line Wizards than the standard fare!
Just use the List-And-Display-Available-Relevant-Commands-Formatted-As-Table commandlet. Couldn’t be easier.
I mean…
get-command *mycommand* | format-table
Isnt that hard to remember is it?
It ruins my joke about the overly verbose commands though
Does ash count?
Most def. So does
dash
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Don’t forget pwsh! 🤪
Instead of putting the onus on you, I let ChatGPT do the heavy lifting… of some answers adjacent to the one I wanted. Yes I was being kinda lazy.
The only reason I can think of to use pwsh.exe is to run it in Wine