Shell

• Shells
  • Fish
• Shell One Liners
• More Resources
• Memes
  • Opening a Shell, Non-Programmers
  • Bash Scripting: Essential DevOps

Shells

• Bash - the gold standard in shell scripting
• Bourne - the original unix shell - Bash is the Bourne Again Shell - next generation Bourne shell
• Ksh - Korn shell - another old unix shell
• Tcsh - BSD shell - just use Bash
• Zsh - slightly more feature rich shell than Bash. Not sure it's worth the hassle aside from ** directory recursion globbing
• Fish - friendly interactive shell - meaning user friendly

Fish

Friendly Interactive Shell

• awesome colourization
• tab complete from parsing man pages
• typing up/down selects historical commands for same command
• inline auto-suggestions based on history
• syntax highlighting files/dirs that exist / don't exist blue/red

.config/fish/config.sh

• Oh My Fish - omf - package manager
• Spacefish - awesome prompt, rich git info
• superceded by Spaceship
• brew install spaceship - available for each shell Bash/Zsh/Fish
• amazing website built-in
• fish_config

Shell One Liners

See the Shell One Liners page.

More Resources

• DevOps-Bash-tools
• ANSI Terminal Escape Codes
• CommandLineFu
• ShellDorado
• Bash Guide

Memes

Opening a Shell, Non-Programmers

This has literally happened to me when Apple Store staff saw me open a shell 😂:

Bash Scripting: Essential DevOps

Ported from various private Knowledge Base pages 2002+