What Linux shell should I use? [closed]

Question

I've used bash, csh, and tcsh. But I asked this question, and Jonathan informed me that csh isn't to be trusted. So what Linux shell is good for development. and why?

Answer 1

The most common shell, by far, on Linux is bash. Unless you have a good reason to use an alternative, I'd suggest that sticking with bash, or the most commonly used shell by your project team (or that the bulk of the shell scripts you have to work with) uses.

The only other very common contender is dash, which is becoming more widely used by the Ubuntu project.

This really is personal preference, well, except for csh.

Wikipedia link for csh

Answer 2

I prefer zsh.

The tab-completion alone is worth it:

• It expands wildcards if you want(handy when you want to delete all but one file in a directory)
• Will give you a list of switches after specifying a program
• Gives tab completion options below the line you're working on, which is pretty handy.

http://zsh.sourceforge.net/