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That's being explicit, the problem is with wrapper scripts that omit that, assuming a sh compatible shell. Still running fish on one of my systems, excited to
by vietor 14y ago
That's being explicit, the problem is with wrapper scripts that omit that, assuming a sh compatible shell.
Still running fish on one of my systems, excited to see new development work as it was getting past the point where I was comfortable using it on anything new.
- nickburlett 14y agoAn old trick for convincing (some) shells that your script is an sh-compatibile shell is to use a colon on the first line. Support for this trick was added to fish back in 2007: https://gitorious.org/~ridiculousfish/fish-shell/fishfish/blobs/master/exec.c#line520 https://gitorious.org/~ridiculousfish/fish-shell/fishfish/bl...
- akkartik 14y agoThanks for the pointer. I can't say how much I wish more people would include pointers to code fragments or specific commits on a site called hacker news. Tangential question: is gitorious's syntax highlighting usually this awful? The first thing I need from syntax highlighting is distinguishing comments from code.
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- cheatercheater 14y agoI'm not sure how to use it. Can you give an example of where it works, and what changes if this is not done?