[laumars]

No seriously, there really are. I appreciate it requires learning a new tool but rather than downvoting me how about those unconvinced ask me questions instead? I’m happy to answer.

While there will always be a need to keep Bash around for comparability, there are a plethora of other tools out there that solve many of the shortcomings of POSIX.

[lambdaba]

Are you using one of these exclusively? Which one have you chosen and why?

[laumars]

I use murex exclusively. It’s still beta quality so not totally bug free but the bugs are rarely showstoppers and it’s still in active development so fixes are usually just one GitHub issue away.

I don’t use it on servers, I stick with Bash for that. But I do use it as my primary local shell.

As for why murex, that’s a combination of personal preference and simply not being aware of other shells until after I’d already started using murex.

What I like about it is it’s typed and does a lot of the boring stuff automatically in the pipeline based off what type is (JSON, YAML, CSVs etc are all “types”). So working with a JSON file is as natural as working with a flat text file. But also it’s trivial to bypass the clever stuff and use it like a dumb bash shell too. Which is where Powershell and its ilk fall down.

[lambdaba]

Thank you, I'll check out Murex.