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Comment by yewenjie | Hacker News Reader

Very cool. I really love fish but sometimes find it very annoying to translate random posix snippets from the web.

The trick is to enter bash from fish, run your command, and then call fish again.

    (fish)$ bash
    (fish>bash)$ source ./random.sh
    (fish>bash)$ fish
    (fish>bash>fish)$

I think you should hit ctrl+d when you are done in bash to avoid the nested fish>bash>fish.

The idea is to return to a fish shell, but with all the env-vars that bash might have loaded as a result of executing the script.

`exec <shell>` would avoid nested shells and inherit the environment. Which might be preferable if you find your terminal emulator complaining about processes still running on close.

Would it be better to ‘exec’ the shells to avoid the nesting?

Or just simply:

    (fish)$ bash -c ./random.sh

That doesn't give you the env vars that the script might have set.

You can use fenv or bass for that. They run a snippet or script of bash in bash, then import all the environment changes for you

https://github.com/oh-my-fish/plugin-foreign-env

https://github.com/edc/bass

could you explain this? How could the script set env vars before you run it??

No need to use -c there:

    (fish)$ bash random.sh

Have you made use of tools like babelfish? https://github.com/bouk/babelfish

With Fish 3.0 and 3.1 it’s even more compatible with snippets you are likely to find to copy and paste. Do you remember something you found that doesn’t work?

Unless it is really simple stuff why not just drop temporarily into bash?

I mainly use fish for interactive work not for programming. Then I use a real programming language.

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