Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language

Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by caymanjim on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:22AM (#24082163)

This is a shell for people who either don't know Unix or don't like Unix. The normal Unix tools do all these things, often with less typing, and they're a lot more flexible and transferrable to other environments.

I get that many Unix commands are obscure, and the syntax is often inconsistent, but once you're familiar with them, you can do everything this shell does and a whole lot more. And for anything more complex you've got a million other languages to choose from.

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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by liljencrantz on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:10PM (#24104478)

I am the author of Crush, I designed Crush for myself: a very happy Unix user for 23 years and someone who can honestly say I love Unix and the Unix philosophy. As such, I feel that I can say with some authority that your first statement is wrong.

The rest of your command is subjective, but I find that being able to see e.g. what user has used a lot of CPU and has many processes running via the command `ps | group ^user cpu={sum ^cpu} proc_count={count}` is both useful and far harder to do in a traditional shell. YMMV.

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