> help for It opened browser window... I don't need browser, I need quick and easy way to access basic syntax what does inline help in bash. It's console app after all!
> man for Not really good: the default PAGER is 'less' which doesn't fully comply with 'quick and easy'. Well, if to trim NAME section and quick description ('for - perform a set of commands multiple times.') and output with 'cat' it will be almost like 'help' in bash, but: > PAGER=cat man for fish: Unknown command 'PAGER=cat'. Did you mean to run man with a modified environment? Try 'env PAGER=cat man…'. See the help section on the set command by typing 'help set'. I recall, that I've read something about "fish doesn't like subshells". Well, it's good to set variables inside pipes: I like that! But, here I want quick and easy way to use temporary settings. Ok, let's try what error said: > env PAGER=cat man for No manual entry for for OMG, what was that?? It set PAGER and forgot all other variables? I guess, it executed '/usr/bin/env' which is not related to any shell and behaves how it wants, thus not a good method. I just want a subshell here with a quick and concise: > PAGER=cat man for And it is kind of cumbersome to add 'env' here (even if it worked)... Btw, if someone is interested, I decided to look at 'fish' because of course 'bash' scripting is horrible! And the fact that 'fish' supports var-change hooks was a signal to start examining it. But such basic and simple failures give wa-ay too much no-go. The interactivity of 'fish' is not really good. Well, by interactivity I don't mean all these traffic-light colors and popping stuff (which frankly don't add good impression) but simply 'what you type and what you get'... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users