Alternative Shells

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  • oil

    Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  • pyxargs

    Command line Python scripting with an xargs-like interface and AWK-like capabilities for data processing and task automation

  • I personally use fish, but mostly for the out of the box auto completions and highlighting, I don't use it for actual scripting, nor have it set as the login shell due to the 2nd reason you mentioned.

    I mostly use python as well, and for some short commands I made pyxargs [1] which lets you run python code on stdin, or a walk of your current directory.

    [1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs

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