Hi Xavier,
On 1/7/25 19:46, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hello
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> I am a new fish user trying to figure out all the concepts and features.
>
> I browse many github repositories to get some inspiration.
>
> Many people seems to mixup abbreviations and functions. I mean, some functi=
> ons could have been abbreviations.
>
For me it is like this.
For the simple stuff I use aliases.
Here some examples
```
alias lsbig "ls -s size -l | tail -n 10"
...
if command -sq dnf
alias dnfs="dnf search"
alias dnfi="sudo dnf install"
alias dnfr="sudo dnf remove"
alias dnfl="sudo dnf list"
alias dnfu="sudo dnf upgrade"
alias dnfli="sudo dnf list installed"
alias dnfc="sudo dnf clean all"
alias dnfgi="sudo dnf groupinstall"
alias dnfgl="sudo dnf grouplist"
alias dnfgr="sudo dnf groupremove"
end
```
For more complex stuff I use functions
Examples
```
function mkcd
set -l newdir $argv[1]
mkdir -p $newdir
cd $newdir
end
```
```
# quick way to show number of files, dirs and symlinks
# in a directory tree
function filestat
set -l start_dir $argv[1]
if [ -z $start_dir ]
set start_dir '.'
end
set -l numf (find $start_dir -type f | wc -l)
set -l numd (find $start_dir -type d | wc -l)
set -l numl (find $start_dir -type l | wc -l)
echo "#dirs=$numd, #files=$numf, #links=$numl"
end
```
I use abbreviations only for stuff like this
```
abbr --add --position anywhere G '| grep'
```
Here I can type, for example: `ls -l G` and a blank and it gets expanded to
`ls -l | grep`
But your mileage may vary. 😁
--
Manfred
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