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I feel like a useful comparison of shells would be good fodder. I always liked seeing different nix distros running unusual shells. It felt like a mirror of the
by hexadec 7y ago
I feel like a useful comparison of shells would be good fodder. I always liked seeing different nix distros running unusual shells. It felt like a mirror of the nix desktop world with different features taking precedence.
Someone should create a VM or distro that picks a random shell for every new terminal window/tab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells
- bjoli 7y agoWhy a VM? That seems like the ultimate bandwidth abuse. I could whip up a /bin/sh script that selects one at random from/etc/shells for you that is only a couple of bytes.
- NikkiA 7y agoI presume by 'a VM', OP means something like a pre-built install/appliance so that there's no need to hunt down and install every esoteric shell that's out there just to use them for 30s and decide they don't suite their usage.
- hexadec 7y agoYes, it takes some of the excitement away if I have to do it manually. I also don't want it to be a daily driver, more for hacking about.