alt Hacker NewsFor the things shell is good at (running other commands, pipes, and shuffling files), I have yet to find anything even close to as good.
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hnlmorg • today at 4:39 PM
I agree that shells are uniquely good for that but there are plenty of better shells than Bash.
Such as Fish, nushell, Elvish, or the project I help maintain, “murex”
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shevy-java • today at 5:31 PM
I did.
Ruby replaced all my shell needs. Almost 25 years ago. I even have a shell written in ruby (it handles both bash-like behaviour as well as ruby code as-is); admittedly it is not quite perfect for everything, but I improve on it steadily. And it works on Windows too, which was one reason I wrote it in the first place (need to have it work via cmd.exe as-is).
Never looked back to shell. It is too awful to use.
A different shell??? Nushell, fish, powershell, etc.