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Add a chapter on different shells (& plugin managers)

Open tobiasbueschel opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

There are a lot of shells out there which can be a difficult landscape for newcomers to navigate. And while bash, zsh and powershell are popular and well known, there are also many others around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells

Perhaps adding a chapter on the history, a small comparison and practical examples could be useful? + once you get deeper into some of these shells you might also want to look into plugin managers e.g. for zsh - zplugin, antigen, antibody, zgen, zplugin, etc.

tobiasbueschel avatar Jun 12 '20 00:06 tobiasbueschel

There's a section planned (in the ./structure.md doc for this


Interlude

The Linux and Shell Family Tree

There are lots of different flavours of Linux and Unix, and lots of different shells. This interlude takes a quick look at the Linux and Unix family tree, and the different shells which have evolved over time.


I'll keep this issue open for brainstorming though!

dwmkerr avatar Jun 12 '20 04:06 dwmkerr