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Which Shell Do You Prefer?

Posted by Cliff on from the it's-about-time-we-posed-this-one dept.

Pascal de Bruijn asks: "I recently started to use NetBSD, the first thing I noticed was that it didn't have a command-line history. So I immediately wanted to switch my shell, being on BSD my first instinct was to change to tcsh, but many people told me it wasn't any good. Others recommended zsh. I would really like to hear your opinions about shells." The submitter is particularly interested in shell memory usage, and the features you like...and dislike...from the current options that are available, today.

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  1. conch by dynoman7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    nuff said

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    1. Re:conch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think you mean sea shell.

  2. I prefer... by orthogonal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Conch shells.

    If your plane crashes on a deserted island, and you get the conch shell, you 0\/\/n3rs the island.

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  3. Battlestar Galactica by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I prefer Emacs, because VI doesn't have enough features.

    Actually, wait, I prefer Gnome, because I dislike KDE's philosophy in duplicating technologoies that already exist, but in the "KDE" style...

    Enterprise vs. the Battlestar Galactica? Enterprise, baby! Battlestars always catch on fire, as if they were made of rice-paper.

    No wait, wait... this is about shells. Gosh, I've never used a shell. What is it?

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  4. I use gdb by sigwinch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hands down the most powerful shell there is.

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  5. Stupid users... by darken9999 · · Score: 2, Funny
    What a dumb question. Ask Slashdot is really going downhill. Newbies need to use Google like us 1337 users.

    Shells

  6. Which Shell? by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 3, Funny

    Royal Dutch?

    "When you absolutely, positively have to murder every Ogoni protester in the Niger Delta, accept no substitute."
  7. GDB is my shell. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Real men have a perl script to search through all .h's and .so's on the system, and make up an executable including and linking them all, and just printing "hello, world.".

    Then they run that in GDB and break. Instead of rm they use "p unlink("file");" Occasionally they might break down and use "system("shell command\n"); but only if no one is looking.

  8. Zork shell! by tm2b · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer the adventure shells.

    The core cannot defend itself. It dies.

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  9. duh (-1 redundant) by GiMP · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be modded down for this but:

    root shells.