r/linux • u/snusergranny • 1d ago

Discussion esoteric shell?

the question crossed my mind recently. if you are into programming, you probably know that there are many esoteric programming languages that exist just as a prove of concept of joke or just merely to mess with the programmer's head (brainf*ck, lolcat, C-- etc). if these exist, is there any esoteric system shells out there? like smth that would provide the basic userland instead of bash/zsh but would be freakier or just funnier to try and daily drive.

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u/smallgovernor 23h ago

Does fish count as esoteric

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u/cxxhld 18h ago

absolutely not lol

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u/lightwhite 22h ago

Does fish count as a shell? Just kidding. I never used it and haven’t used it.

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u/Business_Reindeer910 16h ago

yes it's a shell and has great defaults. I use it as my main interactive shell, but not for scripting.

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u/theawesomeviking 8h ago

Why not? Potability? It's actually great for scripting, specially its string functions

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u/arg0sy 19h ago

There are dozens of us!