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What shell do YOU use for scripting or command-line on LL?
bitsnpcs:
@Moltke can you add the links in to the threads for the 2 books please ? :)
Moltke:
You're welcome @Vera
--- Quote ---The fish shell just seems more intuitive to me, and the autosuggest feature on command line has definitely resulted in me getting things done a lot faster.
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I also use fish for repetitive tasks since as you stated its auto-completion feature is most useful in those cases, so I don't have to type over and over the same commands. But I use bash as the default one. Truth is I don't do/know much scripting, I'm learning how to. :)
You're very welcome @bitsnpcs glad you found it useful.
Vera:
Thanks for the helpful links about scripting, @Moltke .
I use the fish shell https://fishshell.com/ for most of my stuff (I installed it via Synaptic). It's very user-friendly, and has good use of color.
On the command-line, if I type in something that looks syntactically wrong to the shell, it'll highlight it in red, which is helpful to me. It also displays autosuggest on command line without me needing to hit tab or whatever (just hit right arrow to accept autosuggestion, or carry on typing whatever I was typing if I don't want to accept autosuggestion).
I still have bash as my login user shell, but I switch to the fish shell for 99% of whatever I'm doing, including shell scripting. The fish shell just seems more intuitive to me, and the autosuggest feature on command line has definitely resulted in me getting things done a lot faster.
bitsnpcs:
--- Quote from: Moltke on September 16, 2018, 10:47:16 AM ---
--- Quote ---It appears the third version has lots of empty space, maybe missing images
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@bitsnpcs yes, you're right. I noticed that too. Anyway, it doesn't seem to be too many changes from the second edition, so I guess we're good using that one. ;D
I just found this https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Main_Page it has several examples and explanatios are quite clear. I think it's a good resource for learning scripting and bash. Hope you like it. :)
cheers!
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@Moltke yes it will be good using the second edition.
Thank You for the link, I've saved it, I'll work through the current 2 books (second edition and pro bash) first it will be useful for the examples and explanations as you wrote :)
Moltke:
--- Quote ---It appears the third version has lots of empty space, maybe missing images
--- End quote ---
@bitsnpcs yes, you're right. I noticed that too. Anyway, it doesn't seem to be too many changes from the second edition, so I guess we're good using that one. ;D
I just found this https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Main_Page it has several examples and explanatios are quite clear. I think it's a good resource for learning scripting and bash. Hope you like it. :)
cheers!
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