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Apart from what you can (arguably?) call the more popular shells (bash, csh, Korn, zsh) what other ones do you know and use and what unique features do they have?

ps - One answer per shell would be ideal to gather a meaningful survey

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I'm currently using zsh, but I believe it's the new trend in shells. I haven't gotten down and dirty with it so far, but as far as i can tell it has nifty autocompletion support, right-side prompt, multiline command editing and some other nifty stuff.

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I like fish, although I rarely use it myself. It's tremendously helpful for beginners who haven't met sh and think bash is unfriendly.

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  • I installed Fish to play around with it at one point, but am in the process of updating my Linux box, so I haven't reinstalled it. I was honestly impressed by it.
    – Thomas Owens
    Aug 20, 2010 at 21:44
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I've been using tcsh for years. Its backwards compatible with csh, but adds a bunch of useful features like command completion, command history, etc. This is just for interactive use. For scripting, I don't think there is any reason to use anything other than bash.

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  • tcsh is hard to use for those who are used to Bourne shell as it is descendant of csh and behaves differently then Bourne shell descendants (like bash, zsh etc.).
    – Maciej Piechotka
    Aug 17, 2010 at 10:43
  • @Maciej You are right. I wouldn't recommend switching to anyone already used to a Bourne shell descendant. I started out with csh, and haven't found a good reason to switch.
    – KeithB
    Aug 17, 2010 at 12:45
  • I started on tcsh and still like it better than bash. But I eventually had to port my default shell over to bash because I keep logging into systems which didn't have tcsh. Where as bash is pretty much everywhere (at lease in Linux).
    – eSniff
    Oct 22, 2010 at 23:44

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