• Herzenschein@pawb.social
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    8 hours ago

    While I do like fish syntax, you don’t really need to learn it. You can just use it for your interactive use in the terminal while writing your scripts in bash.

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      6 hours ago

      This is the way. I’ve never even attempted to script anything in fish, but it’s just a great interactive shell OOTB. I think at most I have a colorscheme and an alias or 2.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      this is basically what I did until I dropped fish for zsh because of annoyances with how it functioned.

      Scripting in fish is obnoxious though if you learned bash first, heavily recommend staying far away 😂

      Hard recommend staying in bash or at least zsh, at least you maintain compatibility with others if you ever decided to share your scripts.

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        2 hours ago

        I tried using zsh again after having used fish for a while, but I just couldn’t do it. Trying to configure the ergonomics that fish ships OOTB into zsh was a pain, and I couldn’t get it to a satisfactory level.

        Regarding scripts, you don’t have to use the fish scripting language. Just keep writing your scripts in Bash, and as long as you use a shebang, it’ll work fine in fish.

    • Lena@gregtech.eu
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      8 hours ago

      Yeah that’s what I do to, I don’t need to write complex scripts anyway. Fish’s syntax seems interesting though.