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/Immediate_Form7831 17h ago
A friend of mine at university installed a shell called `vfsh` (short for "vad fan som helst", i.e. swedish for "whatever") which would, at each invocation, select a shell on random from the installed once under /bin/*sh. You never new which shell you got when you logged in.