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Diti · 2023-03-12 19:50:24

I use Zsh at home, and PowerShell 5 (for DSC 1.1) and 7 at work. I love both. I would almost be tempted to use pwsh as my main shell on Linux, but I am too attached to Zsh’s amazing RPROMPT!

fxfan | karma 483 | avg karma 1.08 · | 2019-02-27 11:45:28+00:00

It's more powerful but lacks a bit in interactive features.

I use zsh for regular getting around and opening stuff but anything that needs logic I do in pwsh.

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tutfbhuf | karma 1855 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2020-12-21 07:50:13+00:00

I use zsh for interactive shells and bash for scripts.

Natfan | karma 381 | avg karma 2.91 · | 2020-07-10 21:58:47+00:00

Personally I've found zsh's features to massively outweigh it's "slowness" (although I haven't really noticed zsh as "slow", per se)

`esc, esc` to prefix the line with `sudo`, better tab completion (both the navigatable UI with arrow keys, along with the intelligent tab completion (I type in "./llo" and it finds the file "./helloworld.sh")), combined with the massive amounts of customization and modules you can install makes it a shell killer. The only shell I've found that I like more is Windows' Powershell, however that's mostly because I __love__ the Powershell language and syntax.

However I will admit that almost all of what I just complimented is part of oh-my-zsh, which is a community add-on for zsh which makes the experience so much nicer. In my time I've used bash, csh, pwsh and zsh and if I could, I'd always use zsh for termanal interactivity and pwsh (Powershell on Linux) for scripts.

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fiddlerwoaroof | karma 6113 | avg karma 2.37 · | 2024-03-08 07:33:17

I do: I find zsh is quite a bit nicer than bash for scripting and tend to write all my personal shell utilities in zsh.

rashil2000 | karma 76 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2021-03-23 13:05:20

It is my favorite too! I can quickly work in Bash/Zsh without starting any WSL sessions.

nichochar | karma 1648 | avg karma 4.47 · | 2013-12-22 17:57:07+00:00

Oh My ZSH works very well for me. Love it

raffraffraff | karma 3658 | avg karma 2.87 · | 2022-05-08 00:55:15

Many years ago I had to write a script that ever developer in the company would occasionally have to use. After running into compatibility issues with python and bash I went for zsh, and never heard a single complaint. I still use bash as my main shell, out of habit (and because I know it'll be installed on whatever remote server I connect to) but zsh isn't so different. It's array syntax, for one. And figuring out what directory "this script" is in, regardless of `pwd` output, is easier.

PartiallyTyped | karma 2658 | avg karma 1.11 · | 2023-02-16 16:16:15

> and PowerShell is better than zsh.

Could you elaborate?

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weaksauce | karma 5956 | avg karma 2.07 · | 2014-04-16 07:25:02

I like bash and all, but a well tuned zsh is amazing. I was hesitant for a while but it really improved my workflow in the shell.

sigzero | karma 4147 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2021-10-20 08:21:36

Use what you like. I use zsh at home. At work, it is ksh, sh, or bash on the servers. I don't see that changing (except ksh going away when we replace Solaris) for a very long time, if ever.

artie_effim | karma 144 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2018-10-05 19:39:14+00:00

zsh instead of everything else :D

jarjoura | karma 2900 | avg karma 4.45 · | 2016-03-24 02:08:20+00:00

I adore Oh My Zsh, way better than bash and the completion plugins are extremely helpful!

int0x80 | karma 488 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2018-10-17 14:01:03+00:00

And bash/zsh. Bash can be really powerful. Slow for some tasks though (much slower than perl for example), but little times I've had that problem.

oblio | karma 25694 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2023-02-09 06:01:28

I use zsh, but even zsh is a bit long in the tooth.

I'm especially interested in daily interactive use.

I tried fish but it's a bit tricky in some contexts.

Powershell is a bit too alien in *NIX-land, even though I really like it's concepts.

nushell looks quite promising but it's still pre-1.0.

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kinghajj | karma 1281 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2023-04-06 14:40:36

Ha, I've tried zsh, but never got quite comfortable with it. Recently I've been using bash with starship, which has enough bells and whistles for me.

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eatonphil | karma 21581 | avg karma 5.52 · | 2022-04-20 06:21:59

Powershell, Windows Terminal and oh-my-posh get you pretty close to zsh on Linux. I'll comment back with a few more tweaks I had to make to powershell to get closest to the Linux experience.

But my biggest gripe is not having tmux. There are some window/tab/pane management shortcuts in Windows Terminal but they're not as good as tmux (yet).

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