Welcome back to Linux.Ars! We have some good stuff for you this week. Axel Liljencrantz has written a helpful introduction to the Friendly Interactive Shell (Fish), a unique and innovative command ...

Everything you do on the Linux command line involves a shell, whether you pay it any mind or not. It’s probably Bash, possibly Zsh, but either way, it’s highly relevant to all shell scripting, big and ...

Tired of those same old shells? Linux.Ars has an in-depth look at fish, a GPLed command-line shell for Linux and other Posix-like system. Also, Developers Corner looks at new Javascript features in ...

As a Linux user, you probably run commands in your terminal using one of two shells: bash or zsh. Maybe you’ve heard of their predecessors, like sh or csh; you might even be aware of newer shells like ...