Re:New Features in the Fish Shell
by mattgreenrocks on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:36AM
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Most common bash/zsh syntax works in shell. For most day to day shell usage, I'd say:
* get comfortable with stdin/stdout/stderr syntax (and redirection)
* get piping down pat. It's so useful.
* practice using &&, ||, and ; to sequence commands
* know how to use ENV=value to override env vars, and understand how env vars work
* yak shave a bit and make some aliases/functions in your shell based on your usage patterns
From here, it gets esoteric pretty fast, no matter what shell you're in. But you have enough concepts to figure out you need from there.
Confession: I haven't taken pains to learn any shell after that. Almost similar to why I never took to try out VSCode after getting used to Sublime Text. So many demos, videos etc. quite tempt me to try out VSCode but still haven't ever got to it)
The only thing that I took note was to install https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish every time I setup a machine.
Would be great to know of any quick to learn fish-hacks or fish-for-dummies resources