Fish - The friendly interactive shell

Fish - The friendly interactive shell

It would be bad to make the behaviour in scripts different from that in interactive use, often I just paste my recent command history and make it a script for later use. The obviously correct ;-) solution is to make globbing work differently in list context, ie. when used as an iterator in for loops.

Doing this correctly in bash is quite painful -- you need to handle case where the glob matches literally:

  for i in *.c; do
    [ "$i" = "*.c" -a ! -e "$i" ] && break
    do_stuff "$i"
  done

fish sure is neater:

  for i in *.c; do_stuff $i; end