Run Bash commands replaying changes in Fish. 🍤
Let's say you need to run a Bash command, and want Fish to inherit changes in the environment, e.g., exported and unset variables, changes to the $PATH, and so on. How do you do that?
$ exec bash -c "$commands; exec fish"Caveats? Unfortunately, yes.
There's no way to preserve the last command exit status. You'll lose the entire state of your session; history may not sync up correctly if you have Fish running in other terminal tabs, local variables are gone. Fish takes a little while to start up. Moreover, things Fish is configured to do on startup like running configuration snippets or displaying a custom greeting may not be appreciated. If jobs are running in the background, they'll be terminated too.
Replay runs your commands in Bash, captures exported variables, aliases, $PWD changes, and reproduces them in Fish so you don't have to exec-away your session.
Install with Fisher:
fisher install jorgebucaran/replay.fishThis sets the environment variable PYTHON in your session.
$ replay export PYTHON=python2
$ echo $PYTHON
python2This will download and install the latest Node release (requires nvm).
$ replay "source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh --no-use && nvm use latest"Bash aliases? You got it.
$ replay alias g=git
$ g init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/users/jb/code/replay.fish/.git/Replay will even take care of special variables like $PWD, switching directories if needed.
$ pwd
/home/users/jb/replay.fish
$ replay cd ~
$ pwd
/home/users/jbReplay is not bulletproof! Interactive utilities, such as
ssh-addare not currently supported.