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Safe to use Fish Shell?

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TensorTom #1

Is it safe for me to install Fish Shell on the machine as the default shell?

Cy
CyberPanel #2

Would not recommend it.

Te
TensorTom #3

I was able to get away with it with Interworx. I was looking for a tutorial for installing it for just my site’s user account. Do you see a problem with that too?

Cy
CyberPanel #4

You can go ahead for your site user.

Te
TensorTom #5

Or maybe just install ZSH? I think that is SH compatible. I do love fish though.

Cy
CyberPanel #6

I am sorry, can not say for sure, before personally testing it.

Te
TensorTom #7

ZSH seems to be working good so far. I investigated a bit and ZSH is sh and bash compatible. You should consider making it default for CyberPanel. ZSH and Fish are so much easier to work with. Very nice clean, forward-thinking shells. In the case of ZSH, nothing to lose.

Cy
CyberPanel #8

Any significant benefit features wise?

Te
TensorTom #9

Allows you to quickly perform actions via the shell that otherwise take more time. Also nice things like the autocomplete is smarter and is always showing you a shadow in front of what you’re typing in case you want to autocomplete. Also pluggable and themable. I was using Fish before but now that I’ve tried ZSH with cyberpanel, I think I will switch to it because not being bash compatible can be a pain sometimes.

To get working with cyberpanel I just did:

yum install -y zsh git

usermod -s /bin/zsh root
usermod -s /bin/zsh myOtherUser

sh -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)”

Te
TensorTom #10

I can confirm it’s bash compatible because I just installed my python helper tools without needing any extra plugins.

Cy
CyberPanel #11

I see, interesting.

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