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It's pretty common to copy-paste POSIX sh one-liners, or `source` a simple script. fish makes this annoying to do.

Actually, in the last few years this gripe has gone away, at least for me. Once they added proper support for `VAR=val cmd && othercmd`, I haven't run across any one-liners that didn't work in fish.

I’ll trade the occasional minor annoyance for the day-to-day ease of use that fish provides

The only issue I ran into this was when the one liners had subshell syntax $(cmd here), and all I had to do was convert $() to just ().

AFAIK that will be remedied in an upcoming release.

Indeed, the following should work with upcoming fish 3.4:

    echo "pwd: $(pwd)"

See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/8059

Oh awesome, Fish just keeps getting better and better!

bash -c "PASTE_HERE"

That's annoying when you have complex quoting in the pasted script, but you can always do

    bash
    PASTE_HERE
    exit

Works for everything unless the pasted commands set variables you want to use.

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