Ask HN: What shell are you using, if not *sh?

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  • abs

    Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting.

  • For scripting on my Linux systems, including scheduled utilities, I use ABS a lot. It has been enjoyable and straightforward.

    https://www.abs-lang.org/

  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

  • I swear by zsh and bash, but fish shell may be your thing: https://fishshell.com/

    There's also PowerShell for all the OSes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...

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