What do you advice for shell usage?
- Do you use bash? If not, which one do you use? zsh, fish? Why do you do it?
- Do you write
#!/bin/bashor#!/bin/sh? Do you write fish exclusive scripts? - Do you have two folders, one for proven commands and one for experimental?
- Do you publish/ share those commands?
- Do you sync the folder between your server and your workstation?
- What should've people told you what to do/ use?
- good practice?
- general advice?
- is it bad practice to create a handful of commands like
podupandpoddownthat replacepodman compose up -dandpodman compose downorpodlogaspodman logs -f --tail 20 $1orpodenterforpodman exec -it "$1" /bin/sh?
Background
I started bookmarking every somewhat useful website. Whenever I search for something for a second time, it'll popup as the first search result. I often search for the same linux commands as well. When I moved to atomic Fedora, I had to search for rpm-ostree (POV: it was a horrible command for me, as a new user, to remember) or sudo ostree admin pin 0. Usually, I bookmark the website and can get back to it. One day, I started putting everything into a .bashrc file. Sooner rather than later I discovered that I could simply add ~/bin to my $PATH variable and put many useful scripts or commands into it.
For the most part I simply used bash. I knew that you could somehow extend it but I never did. Recently, I switched to fish because it has tab completion. It is awesome and I should've had completion years ago. This is a game changer for me.
I hated that bash would write the whole path and I was annoyed by it. I added PS1="$ " to my ~/.bashrc file. When I need to know the path, I simply type pwd. Recently, I found starship which has themes and adds another line just for the path. It colorizes the output and highlights whenever I'm in a toolbox/distrobox. It is awesome.
#!/usr/bin/env shfor dead simple scripts, so they will be a tiny bit more portable and run a tiny bit faster. The lack of arrays causes too much pain in longer scripts. I would love to use Fish, but it lacks a strict mode.set -euo pipefailline. It will make Bash error on non-zero exit code, undefined variables and non-zero exit codes in commands in pipe. Also, always use shellcheck. It's extremely easy to make a mistake in Bash. If you want to check the single command exit code manually, just wrap it inset +eandset -e.mainfunction definition withArgumentParserinstantiated. Then at the end of the script themainfunction is called wrapped intry … except KeyboardInterrupt: exit(130)which should be a default behavior.type some_command. Oh, and read about abbreviations in Fish. It always expands the abbreviation, so you see what you execute.