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cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/5735388

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[–] null@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] abclop99 18 points 1 year ago
[–] quantenzitrone@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

where nushell, xonsh, rush, yash, dash, powershell, oil, elvish?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

these are really bad band names

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don't talk about the red-headed step-child PowerShell.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

csh/tcsh (not anymore, I use zsh)

scsh (more usable scripting than interactive), with the best acknowledgments

[–] Frederic 7 points 1 year ago

tcsh also! I used it a lot uhhhh last century

[–] tabris@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget pwsh! πŸ€ͺ

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

The only reason I can think of to use pwsh.exe is to run it in Wine

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 1 year ago

Hah, I remember using ksh on an old IBM AIX box.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

with a dry cool wit like that, gandalf could be an action hero

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago

Read the dresden files, that's pretty much its main conceit

[–] BlueFairyPainter@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Most def. So does dash.