Re: [Fish-users] what is wrong with this use of test and $argv?

2017-06-24 Thread Cedric Auger
count $argv should tell you the number of arguments 2017-06-24 23:48 GMT+02:00 Greg Reagle : > Hello. I am using fish version 2.6.0. > > I wrote the following script: cat testing-test.fish: > --- > #!/usr/bin/fish > > test -z $argv; and echo NO argument > --- > > greg@t400 ~/s/bin> ./testing-te

Re: [Fish-users] fish for a bash user

2015-08-03 Thread Cedric Auger
2015-08-03 4:30 GMT+02:00 @lbutlr : > > > On Aug 2, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Greg Reagle wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 01:38:02PM -0600, @lbutlr wrote: > >> I was hoping the list was more active > > > > FYI, the GitHub site at https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues > is very > > active

Re: [Fish-users] 5 minutes fish from 15 years bash impression

2015-05-11 Thread Cedric Auger
I am also using 2.1.1 (-1025-g5d1ddc9 on Ubuntu). After: ~> def def : commande introuvable ~> abc def abc : commande introuvable If I type "de" then use up arrow to navigate through history, I get "abc def" as first choice. Thus for me it is the last command containing "de", not the last start

Re: [Fish-users] how to echo minus symbol

2014-11-13 Thread Cedric Auger
"echo \-" works in my installation. You can also use the non-builtin: "/bin/echo -" 2014-11-13 8:34 GMT+01:00 Santhosh T : > Hi David, > > great. i can use workaround for the time being... > > thanks > santhosh > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:42 PM, David Adam > wrote: > >> This is a known

Re: [Fish-users] Does fish supports named directories as in zsh

2014-11-03 Thread Cedric Auger
Why not create symlinks? 2014-11-01 8:40 GMT+01:00 Santhosh T : > Hi Greg, > > the approach you suggested works, but not user friendly > autocompleting variables appends SPACE rather than "/" > i mean: > > cd $my_d > > now it autocompletes as: > > cd $my_dir > > instead of > > cd $my_dir/ > > tha

Re: [Fish-users] invalid options are not highlighted in red

2014-11-03 Thread Cedric Auger
2014-10-31 17:58 GMT+01:00 Santhosh T : > when i type "ls --unknownoption" > > i am expected "--unknownoption" to be shown in red. > > fish only showing wrong commands in red color, but not wrong options > > i already did run "fish_update_completions" > > I am using MAC > > thanks > Santhosh > > >

Re: [Fish-users] Putting a series of commands in the background

2014-10-30 Thread Cedric Auger
begin; sleep 10; and echo "beep"; end works in my version, but appending '&' does not change the behaviour. I thought, that this was due to the fact that "begin;" was parsed before "&", so I tried to "cheat" by using "eval": eval "sleep 10; and echo \"beep\"" & but, although "sleep 10; and echo

Re: [Fish-users] why builtins?

2014-10-10 Thread Cedric Auger
2014-10-09 23:17 GMT+02:00 Cheer Xiao : > 2014-10-09 19:10 GMT+02:00 Greg Reagle : > > I was reading an article about fish at > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2005/12/linux-20051218/2/ > > which has: > > > > Most other Unix shells include built-in implementations of common > > com

Re: [Fish-users] Weird behaviour in history fn?

2014-10-01 Thread Cedric Auger
Are you sure, you correctly installed it? On my Ubuntu version, it works. cauger@cauger-PNR ~> fish --version fish, version 2.1.1-965-gf0d8d90 cauger@cauger-PNR ~> history --search --contains "foo" history --search --contains "foo" echo Hello | sendxmpp --ssl -o foo cedric.auger cat foo … 2014-

Re: [Fish-users] Command substitution and functions

2014-08-20 Thread Cedric Auger
233.170 > > But running: > $ open "http://";(vip) > Usage: open [-e] [-t] [-f] [-W] ... > > Any ideas? > > // Rickard > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Cedric Auger wrote: > >> Works perfectly for me: >> --

Re: [Fish-users] Command substitution and functions

2014-08-20 Thread Cedric Auger
Works perfectly for me: - Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell Type help for instructions on how to use fish cauger@cauger-PNR ~> function url echo "some url" end cauger@cauger-PNR ~> open (url)/index.html xdg-op

Re: [Fish-users] Trouble parsing file name with switch

2014-08-19 Thread Cedric Auger
Have you tried using "$argv[1]" instead of "$1"? 2014-08-19 3:01 GMT+02:00 Martín Cigorraga : > Hi, > I'm trying to adapt a bash function to extract compressed files depending > on the tool used to compress them: > > function ex > > # ex - archive extractor > > # usage: ex > >

Re: [Fish-users] Trouble parsing file name with switch

2014-08-19 Thread Cedric Auger
Shouldn’t it be better to parse the result of 'file $1' for some of the cases? Many files start with a magic number which tells what this file is meant to be. Of course, some formats may not have a magic number, and in the case of *.tar.gz (or *.tgz) only the outer layer (gunzip) is detected, mean