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zsh or fish for an intermediate Linux user?
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Zsh is just bash with plugins and stuff, so regular bash scripts work. fish, as I understand, uses its own language.
If you have
#!/bin/bashon top of your scripts, they will use bash.Bash code is not safe to run as if it were Zsh, and Zsh has language features Bash doesn't. They are different languages.
That's right. zsh is POSIX compliant while fish is not. That's the reason I switched to zsh from fish.