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reject POSIX, embrace
nushell
Fish isn't POSIX...
That said, I tried nushell a couple times and it's pretty cool. Just a big hurdle for right now.
yeah, but they did reverse course on
; and
vs&&
to be more POSIX compatible, which is a decision i understand but don’t agree withHmm, where did you hear that? I'm reading the manual through relevant parts but I can't find anything regarding those combiners and POSIX compliancy.
Do you have a link perhaps?
it was years ago. they used to not support
&&
, but they added it so people could paste commands into the terminali think this is the PR from 8 years ago 👴: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/4620
Love the pragmatic discourse in that issue. The suggestion is also really well formulated. Bravo to everyone involved.