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I use the terminal on a daily basis, but not too much with shell scripts anymore. Will I notice a difference?

saagarjha 7y ago
If you just type commands into a prompt, then no, not really. If you do anything more advanced than that I think you’ll notice the differences quite quickly (I did).
- checkyoursudo 7y ago
  On my laptop, which is my only macOS device, the only scripts I use are a few python ones. Anything more advanced is on a linux desktop or server. Otherwise, on mac it's mostly ranger, vim, and ssh. I've been tempted to try other shells, but at this point after using Bash for 15 years or something, I've just never had the motivation enough to do it.
  - hylaride 7y ago
    zsh combined with oh-my-zsh changed my life, but I spend a lot of time in the terminal.
Hamuko 7y ago
`brew install zsh` and find out.
- teilo 7y ago
  No need for homebrew. It's already there. Mojave ships with 5.3: ~ /bin/zsh --version zsh 5.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin18.0)
Bahamut 7y ago
Most shell scripts start with a reference to the program that should execute them at the top of the file (i.e. #!/usr/bin/bash), so this shouldn't affect most people, especially since this change will only apply to new users.
- checkyoursudo 7y ago
  I missed that "new user accounts" the first time I read it.
aequitas 7y ago
Depends on the default Zsh configuration file they provide. When I used Zsh in the past with just the default config I found some Bash 'features' missing. Stuff like reverse-i-search (ctrl-r) and tab-completion. Most of them are simple config changes but they don't make a default Zsh a drop-in replacement for Bash from a user perspective. I think this is also the reason projects like Oh-my-zsh.
j0057 7y ago
No, because the syntax of zsh is mostly similar to bash. Yes, because it's only mostly similar. For scripts that start with `#!/bin/bash`, no difference at all, because they will still run with bash.

If you just type commands into a prompt, then no, not really. If you do anything more advanced than that I think you’ll notice the differences quite quickly (I did).

checkyoursudo 7y ago
On my laptop, which is my only macOS device, the only scripts I use are a few python ones. Anything more advanced is on a linux desktop or server. Otherwise, on mac it's mostly ranger, vim, and ssh. I've been tempted to try other shells, but at this point after using Bash for 15 years or something, I've just never had the motivation enough to do it.
- hylaride 7y ago
  zsh combined with oh-my-zsh changed my life, but I spend a lot of time in the terminal.

Hamuko 7y ago

`brew install zsh` and find out.

teilo 7y ago
No need for homebrew. It's already there. Mojave ships with 5.3: ~ /bin/zsh --version zsh 5.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin18.0)

Bahamut 7y ago

Most shell scripts start with a reference to the program that should execute them at the top of the file (i.e. #!/usr/bin/bash), so this shouldn't affect most people, especially since this change will only apply to new users.

checkyoursudo 7y ago
I missed that "new user accounts" the first time I read it.

aequitas 7y ago

Depends on the default Zsh configuration file they provide. When I used Zsh in the past with just the default config I found some Bash 'features' missing. Stuff like reverse-i-search (ctrl-r) and tab-completion. Most of them are simple config changes but they don't make a default Zsh a drop-in replacement for Bash from a user perspective. I think this is also the reason projects like Oh-my-zsh.

j0057 7y ago

No, because the syntax of zsh is mostly similar to bash. Yes, because it's only mostly similar. For scripts that start with `#!/bin/bash`, no difference at all, because they will still run with bash.