Didn’t know about auto populating search queries, abbreviations, string scripting, and using private mode.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    27 days ago

    I wish that string command and also their math command were just general-purpose utilities pre-installed on all systems.

    Tried to script something with sed the other day and was so confused why my regexes weren’t matching, until we realized you need to pass --regexp-extended to get modern-day regex.

    And then I later tried to calculate an average, which bc decided to round down, because it was presumably doing integer math. I actually ended up running python -c "print($total / $count)", because I could not be arsed to work out, if there was some flag to make bc work properly.

    I’m fine with these tools continuing to exist for legacy purposes, but I would like a modern replacement just about now.

    • Gamma@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      27 days ago

      string split/collect and similar can’t work unless its a builtin. The set foo ( ...... | string ... ) pattern couldn’t work if string was an external binary.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    7·
    26 days ago

    I’m worried that I’ll get used to the quality of.life improvements and then I’ll make a dumb mistake using bash at work.

    • Gamma@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      27 days ago

      I get annoyed by differences with (Ba|Z)sh when I try Fish, but nushell is so much its own thing that it’s fun.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      28 days ago

      I’m glad you mentioned nushell (it sounds like) is a more poweruser thing. Someone recommended it in place of fish in another thread and I was curious to check it out, but it sounds like not at all what I want or need as a fish user and that saves me the trouble of trying to make heads or tails of a terminal tool I don’t understand

      But it looks like a cool project and I’m glad it exists for people like you! 😊

    • yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca
      2·
      26 days ago

      I wouldn’t use Nushell as my main shell, but I love using it for data manipulation. It’s incredible for that <3

      afaik it’s way more versatile than using jq.

  • Gamma@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    27 days ago

    Scrubbing through the video, this hurts my soul

    echo $(echo $STRING | sed 's/World/Bash/')

    For variables bash has PE forms:

    echo ${STRING/World/Bash}

    I miss these too much when I try Fish.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
    1·
    24 days ago

    I had to switch from fish to bash because one command to install S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - G.A.M.M.A only works in bash. I have no further details on why 🤷

  • SinTan1729@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    26 days ago

    It’s perfect for daily interactive use, but terrible for scripting. I write almost all my scripts in bash, the only exceptions being convenience scripts for fish itself.

    • traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      31·
      26 days ago

      I still work with bash scripts from fish (to interoperate with bash users), but it’s more like how I use python: the interpreter is specified either in the shebang or explicitly on the cli command invoking the script. It works quite well actually