On 4/19/06, ray hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I am using Fedora Core 5, fish version 1.21.4.
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> I have the following shell script which cycles through pretty colours on my
> terminal.
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> #!/bin/bash
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> #
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> # "colsel" - a term color selector
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> for n in `seq 40 47`
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> do
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> for m in `seq 30 37`
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> do
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> echo -en "\E[$m;${n}m"
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> clear
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> echo $n $m
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> read
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> done
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> done
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> I've attempted to convert this for usage under the fish shell. I ended u
> with:
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> #!/usr/bin/fish
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> #
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> # "colsel" - a term color selector
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>
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> for n in `seq 40 47`;
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> for m in `seq 30 37`;
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> echo -en "\E[$m;${n}m"
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> clear
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> echo $n $m
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> read
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> end;
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> end;
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> When I run the script a get no colours, plus the read command appears not to
> work.
There are a few minor problems with this script left:
* Fish uses () for command substitution, not ``. So the for-loops
should be 'for n in (seq 40 47)', etc..
* Fish does not recognize the ${FOO} syntax for variable expansion,
only $FOO. If you want to append a string to a variable, you can
enclose the variable expansion in a brace expansion '{$FOO}bar', the
brace expansion will of course expand to only the variable, but the
'bar' will not be considered a part of the variable name.
* Fish uses /bin/echo as it's echo implementation, while bash has a
builtin implementation which behaves differently. Specifically,
/bin/echo does not know about \e to mean the escape character. Fish
itself does however know about \e, and a huge number of other escapes.
Fish even understands Unicode escapes like \u2026. You can only use
backslash escapes in fish in an unquoted context (e.g. not within ""),
so you can substitute your string with 'echo \e\[$m\;{$n}m'.
* The fish read implementation expects at least one variable name to
read into. It makes sense to use read simply as a pause-program, and
discard all input, I's simply never considered that fact that one
might want to. I'll fix this, but until that happens, you can replace
'read' with 'read tmp'.
After fixing this issues, you script works for a while, until it
stumbles across some weird fish bug and crashes. Oops. I'll look into
this asap.
--
Axel
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