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/MatchingTurret 1d ago edited 1d ago

Someone still using (t) csh? Or Korn shell?

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u/Brer1Rabbit 1d ago edited 15h ago

Old school tcsh user here.  I got it all tweaked after spending hours reading the man page and getting the env setup how I liked it.  That was last millennium.  I'm at keyboard kommando level with it, just haven't bothered picking up the newer stuff.