Bash question

[wtd]

I'm curious as to what use people make of command shells.

[md]

I use bash as my shell, and I also use it to do some simple scripting whenever I need to do something simple on the command line that requires way too much work to type out.

[rdrake]

I typically prefer using bash... though FreeBSD uses csh (I do believe) as its default shell. Good old sh works well too.

If it counts, I also use the winders PowerShell when I'm left *nixless.

[Null]

I just find things are easier in Linux with the shell. I rarely do any Bash scripting.

[Justin_]

Since I've only removed windows from my computer last month I haven't done anything majorly fancy with bash yet. The fanciest is probably this:

code:

find -xdev -iname '*.mp3' | xargs -r mv '{}' /path/to/directory/

If you can figure out what it does then you can use it to

[timmytheturtle]

I use bash quite a bit, I do some scripting, I've written a few simple scripts do automate proccesses like backing up, or pinging a network to find a machine.

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

Justin_ wrote:

Since I've only removed windows from my computer last month I haven't done anything majorly fancy with bash yet. The fanciest is probably this:

code:

find -xdev -iname '*.mp3' | xargs -r mv '{}' /path/to/directory/

If you can figure out what it does then you can use it to
:)

Don't know if it actually works the same, but:

code:

find -xdev -iname '*.mp3' -exec mv '{}' /path/to/directory ';'

[rizzix]

I use zsh. It's a perfect interactive shell and it has some cool features that use useful in non-interactive scripting.

zsh is pretty good for interactive scripting as well.