Thanks Greg, always nice to hear from a happy user! :) “Intended mostly for interactive use” means that most of fish’s distinguishing features are in its interactive mode. fish’s scripting support is mainly intended to support interactive use, e.g. programmatic completions. While fish does have a full-featured scripting mode, general purpose scripting is better served by dedicated languages such as Perl, Python, etc.
_fish On Jan 25, 2014, at 4:16 AM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > Fish is great!! I switched over from bash recently and I am really loving > fish. So well made, such a pleasure to use. I've been using bash for many > years, and I probably haven't been using its full power. I like that fish > works so well without having to enable features or customize. > > I do find this statement odd though, "fish is a user friendly commandline > shell > intended mostly for interactive use". As far as I can tell (I've only written > one shell script in fish so far), it is just as awesome for writing shell > scripts as it is for interactive use. Am I missing something? > > Thanks to all the fish developers. > > I do not belong to the emai list, so please reply to my email address. > Thanks. > > Here is a little shell script for you: > #!/usr/bin/fish > # Usage: countdown <minutes> OR countdown -s <seconds> > > switch $argv[1] # set $delay to the countdown time in seconds > case -s # seconds > set delay $argv[2] > case '*' # minutes > set delay (expr $argv[1] \* 60) > end > for i in (seq $delay -1 0) # count down the time > set text (date -d"0+$i sec" +%H:%M:%S) > /bin/echo -ne "\r$text" > sleep 1 > end > /bin/echo -e "\rDONE! "; > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
