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Fish shell detracts from people learning (and maintaining) to use POSIX compliant shell scripting. Professionals should be ready at a moments notice to use bash, zsh, and ksh. Also good to be familiar with a csh, (I would accept tcsh). Learn to use the tools of the trade, not toys.





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