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What is your favorite command-line shell?
bash (Bourne-Again Shell) 50%  50%  [ 6 ]
zsh (Z-Shell) 17%  17%  [ 2 ]
tcsh (Tenex C Shell) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
csh (C Shell) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
ksh (Korn Shell) 17%  17%  [ 2 ]
mksh (MirBSD Korn Shell) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Windows PowerShell 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Fish (Friendly Interactive Shell) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Fizsh (Friendly Interactive Z-Shell) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Other 17%  17%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 12

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27 Sep 2014, 11:53 am

My favorite is zsh. I use the oh-my-zsh configuration for various customizations, along with liquidprompt for my shell prompt, and my own .zshrc profile.



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27 Sep 2014, 5:41 pm

CMD.EXE. It has tab completion and support for long filenames, what more do you need? :P

All kidding aside, as much as I like using CMD on Windoze, I understand that it's quite limited compared to a "real" shell. All of the different ones I've used on Linux seem similar for the most part, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of them were based on BASH. I've never done any sort of scripting with them though, aside from setting up shortcuts to run programs with certain commandline parameters, like batch files on Windows/DOS.



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29 Sep 2014, 5:34 am

I prefer BASH. This is easier to learn than most other shells out there.


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01 Oct 2014, 10:10 pm

BASH although I haven' t really used any other shells


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