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Personally, since I am not an expert in shell commands and always work using python, I use IPython for all the shell needs. Works pretty awesome. Here is how y

Personally, since I am not an expert in shell commands and always work using python, I use IPython for all the shell needs. Works pretty awesome. Here is how you go about it, for those interested: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/stable/html/interactive/shell.html http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/stable/html/interactive/shell.h... http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/02/07/python-for-bash-scripters-a-well-kept-secret/ http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/02/07/python-for-bash-script... Seems like, Rush is the ruby counterpart of what IPython is in python.

wladimir 16y ago
It's indeed comparable. I've used IPython for quite a while, and though it's great, I somehow fall back to using bash every time. Conceptually, I like Python much more than shell script, but it seems I end up having to type and think more when simply using it as a shell. When I get to the point where I actually need a real programming language such as Python to express what I want to do, I generally make a script and don't type it in the shell.