Curious what other OpenBSD users use as their main shell?

Poll Results

1. ksh

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2. bash

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3. other (pls comment)

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17 votes were cast.

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Posted in: s/OpenBSD

🐐 drh3xx [mod]

2023-08-13 · 9 months ago · 🔥 1

18 Comments ↓

☕️ Morgan · 2023-08-13 at 18:07:

I like fish, looks like it's available for OpenBSD. Highly recommended :)

🐙 norayr · 2023-08-13 at 22:55:

not an openbsd user, though i like it very much. i think i would use just sh, or bash. maybe ash, if it is available there.

i spend some time to find a shell i would like, and i didn't find such a shell to fall in love and stick with it. they all have horrible syntax for me.

🧶 betabube · 2023-08-14 at 02:43:

I've used bash the few times I've been on open bsd, because that's what I'm comfy with. But I should really try to stick to the defaults as much as possible. Once I've got a new Thinkcentre Tiny in, I'm moving to open bsd anyway. Let's hope I choose the right shell this time.

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-08-14 at 06:59:

@betabube @norayr @Morgan thanks for your responses. My main reason for asking is that ksh is the default in OBSD which I've been trying to stick to but given the prevelance of bash on Linux I didn't know if most people switched their default shell to make their life easier when usiing FOSS solutions that primarily target Linux.

☕️ Morgan · 2023-08-14 at 15:58:

@drh3xx I find it's easy enough to drop into bash from fish if I want it; doesn't happen often, mostly because scripts already specify which shell they need.

🚀 սյունեցի · 2023-08-14 at 17:12:

I live with a FreeBSD contributor/nerd so decided to poll instead of him seing what he uses: mostly bash and /bin/sh for coding (:

☕️ johan · 2023-08-14 at 19:10:

I run bash on my openbsd router/firewall machine but I daily drive fish on my linux machines. The autocompletion on fish is legendary

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-08-14 at 19:34:

@Morgan I get that you can use a mix of shells for scripting but I'm tending toward minimalism nowadays so prefer one tool for one job.

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-08-14 at 19:41:

@սյունեցի thanks for the comment :)

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-08-14 at 19:46:

Thanks @johan I've been hearing about fish a fair bit the past year or so.

☕️ Morgan · 2023-08-14 at 20:24:

@drh3xx I do often use fish (and sometimes bash) for one liners, but beyond that I usually fire up Dart, it's easy enough to write and also easy to hit high I/O throughput, often desirable for scripts, thanks to async/await; I think some Geminauts like go which I guess gets you a similarly huge performance boost thanks to goroutines.

👤 benk · 2023-08-18 at 08:50:

I didn't know ksh really had people using it anymore. It was advanced for its time but seems like kind of an oddball now. Of course, FreeBSD defaults to tcsh, so I'm not one to talk lol. I figured some people would use zsh out of personal preference/choice. I guess the cool shell is fish now

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-08-18 at 12:02:

@benk thanks for the input. I'm kinda surprised to be honest that more OpenBSD users aren't sticking with the default ksh. I guess it depends on their use case and most people are just answering from a server/desktop perspective. I wonder if folks are more inclinded to stick to defaults on routers, firewallls etc...

😈 dev1ls · 2023-08-21 at 12:30:

sometime fish.. but ksh its ok.. i dont need more..

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-08-23 at 20:49:

Thanks for the input @dev1ls :)

🚀 anthk_gem · 2023-10-12 at 12:03:

ksh

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-10-17 at 08:19:

@anthk_gem thanks for the vote.

😎 decant · Apr 09 at 01:32:

ksh for root admin, fish for regular use