>using a shell other than bash for what purpose?

I use PHP as a calculator

>>62054332
Because zsh is bash + path/command completion/correction, where instead bash just tells you to fuck off.

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because of improved tab auto completion
because of improved history

you cant use a search engine, moron?

>>62054426
Reminds you of a gay club, does it? Makes you feel nice and at home, huh?

i use eshell XD

>>62054332
Frogs are fucking stupid.
>>62054452
>being this mad

>>62054426
Looks gay as fuck my man.

Fish is a nice shell. Don't bully.

>>62054426
What's with all the faggy colors?

>>62054492
Fish is noice.

>>62054426

wut font is dat

>>62054332
Bash is bloat, GPL3, and insecure. dash and ksh are far superior.

>>62054566
>features are bloat

dumb frog poster thread

>>62054566
>Extra 25 kb adds command completion
BLOAT

>>62054332
>posting frogs
for what propuse?

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>using a shell other than rc
its like youre stuck in 1980 with a bunch of bloated features on top of it.
http://rc.cat-v.org

fish shell is nice>>62054332

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>>62054332
I only use bash because I'm too lazy to evaluate the alternatives like zsh or fish.

>>62054332
Extreme frogposting.

>>62054426
What is this called?

>>62054830
rc is interesting as a scripting tool, but interactively it sucks chodes.

>>62056194
IMO its good enough. Even has file tab completion on unices.

>>62056179
Looks like z shell
>>62056158
Just switch to a different one and try it for awhile

>>62056225
"Good enough" is why Plan 9 flopped to begin with, modern features in a shell are never a bad thing.

#!/bin/bash
echo $((2+2))

>>62056319
should a shell have many features tho?
I mean, its all done by the utils; and about file descriptors and syntax rc is actually the modernest of the shells
>>62056352

#!/usr/bin/dc
2
2
+p

>>62054332
zsh's tab completion is amazing. It's the reason I use it.

>>62056444
zsh shell completion sucks donkey dick. It's the reason I apt-get purged it.

There's people on this board who will shill anything.
zsh, windows 10, even bsd.

>>62054332
i dont. many distros depend on bash so another shell would just be bloat. (you get a warning on debian if you try to remove bash because many things on the distro uses bash scripts)

Why is frogposting even allowed.

>not using fish
it's like you don't like pretty colors

>>62056516
No idea, but 9999/10000 they are stupid, uninformed, and shitpost based.

>>62056388
It's more about increasing interactivity in a way that only the shell itself can provide effectively.

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>>62056605
or is it?

>>62054332
>alt right amphibian
You domestic terrorists deserve whays coming

>>62054426
kill yourself, numale

>>62054332
Bash is slow as balls (lol)

compare with running your script with ksh93

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I've made some observations about people who use zsh and I know why most of them think it's better than bash.

People switch to zsh either to be special snowflakes or because they see cool zsh prompts in desktop threads or because they hear it has better completion (I personally don't think it does).
Most of them have no idea that the same look can be achieved with bash, that you can embed commands into your PS1, they probably haven't heard of PS2, PS3 and PS4 and they probably don't even know what readline is.
They haven't heard of inputrc, they don't know how to add custom keybinds to macros in bash, they don't know that you can change the editing mode of the interactive shell to be Vi-like.
They don't know about incremental search nor do they know about different completion settings.

Some may say that it's better for scripting, but scripting in a non standard shell is pointless, since you still need to know POSIX scripting and in most cases bash, since it has more features than sh and unlike zsh it's everywhere.
If you want to use a sane language for scripting, use python or if you're working on a larger project, you might also want to consider using a non interpreted programming language like C.

Zsh users are mostly ignorant impresionable people, hipsters of all sorts including nu-male macfag webdev sitting at starbucks types and most of them like to pretend to be cool for using a non standard shell while barely having scratched the surface of bash/readline and I do not want to be associated with them in any way.
In order to make an informed decision about which shell to use, you've got to at least know the basics of both shells and what readline is and what you can do with it.

I personally don't see a valid reason to switch to zsh. I think zsh is bloat mostly for the sake of it.
There might be valid reasons to use zsh, but most people certainly don't do it for valid reasons.