• TCB13@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Why do people keep creating new shells when bash is mostly okay?

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      5 months ago

      fieh and nushell actually offer something new, and zsh is just a better bash if you want that

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      5 months ago

      There’s a massive number of security holes in bash, shellshock being the most egregious. bash has some really terrible design flaws, especially parsing $var multiple times so you can’t reliably break on spaces. Almost any other shell is safer and more productive.