What does HackerNews think of bass ?

I've never needed it, but there is bass for this use-case: https://github.com/edc/bass

I haven’t found much need to swap due to using bass

Just rewrite them once with fish_add_path? https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#path Or maybe use https://github.com/edc/bass

If you're running a script, you can use edc/bass to run it from a fish shell. Fisher is one of the first things I install after fish, then bass, z and a few other helper plugins.

https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher

My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021) | Apr 2023

Use bass to drop down to bash from fish :)

The fish shell is amazing | Nov 2021

bass can be helpful for some of those posix issues:

Nsh: A fish/bash-like Posix shell in Rust | Oct 2021

Another random tip: python virtualenv generates a activate.fish script that you should use instead of the plain activate script.

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

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

Fish shell | May 2021

There is no need to change `$SHELL` :-/ you can use Bass (https://github.com/edc/bass) to execute any bash script and it will apply the environment variables to the current fish environment.

Fish Shell | May 2021

Or running the pasted scripts through bash in fish?

I actually use this guy: https://github.com/edc/bass

Alternative Shells | Feb 2021

You might want bass (https://github.com/edc/bass) or replay.fish (https://github.com/jorgebucaran/replay.fish) if you need to run bash scripts that modify the shell. I personally use replay.fish (although I guess I haven't updated in a while since my version is still called "bax").

Linux and Powershell | Jan 2021

I think for the devops person or someone doing server administration (sysadmins etc) powershell everywhere must make things easier even with the trade offs (as some have mentioned, it does have a bigger memory foot print, which may or may not matter depending on a host of factors)

As a developer? I haven't found PowerShell more useful than zsh/bash or fish (if you haven't, try fish, it has a lot of benefits of PowerShell (fish has its own scripting language that is more "language like", like some of the more simple constructs of Python, syntax wise) but via a simple plugin[0] you get bash compatibility too, and its made for Unix like environments). I do like that it has a rich object data model, I just don't do that kind of thing in my shell. I mostly use aliases, shortcuts, and maybe some grepping. I don't do heavy duty tasks from the command line where I'm not writing the logic in the first place, and I just find it easier to use the standard that my team does (currently, this is JavaScript, with the shebang it executes just like a binary. We can reliably say everyone has the same version of node)

Maybe in the future this will change, but I don't see the win to divide my attention economy to it deeply, personally.

[0]: https://github.com/edc/bass

New Features in the Fish Shell | Sep 2020

I've made use of 'bass' before. The example they have is sourcing nvm's bash script so it's usable in fish. https://github.com/edc/bass

New Features in the Fish Shell | Sep 2020

Or via Bass[1], for things that modify the environment.

Customizing Your Shell | Apr 2020

Lets you use bash utilities from fish. So you can do things like `source` files and have it work.

Also I prefer to use Fish only as an interactive shell, actual scripts can stay bash.

Fish shell 3.0 | Dec 2018

Most scripts are run, not sourced. Some tools support fish. bass[1] aims to handle the rest.

Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? | Nov 2018

The bass plugin[1] works well.

iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2 | Jul 2018

If they do need to be sourced, you can use bass: https://github.com/edc/bass

Why Create a New Unix Shell? | Feb 2018

Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc | Dec 2017

Where things get problematic is with commands that send a set of environment variables to stdout, like

    eval $(ssh-agent)

Sure you can get addons (like bass[0]) that will translate the sh environment variable settings to fish, but it’s a pain to have to do that (and remember wth it was called).

[0] https://github.com/edc/bass

I've had success with bass[1]. Typically, I use it when some kind of tool requires sourcing bash scripts.

Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc | Dec 2017

If there is anything I would personally like to see it’s the bass plugin rolled into the shell itself to make transitions for bash and some esoteric edge cases easier to handle https://github.com/edc/bass

Maybe adopt a package manager for plugins too? ;)

Mastering Bash and Terminal | Jan 2017

The Bass wrapper script can help with some of the incompatibilities:

Show HN: Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults | Mar 2016

You can use bass which solves this problem without porting the script to fish: https://github.com/edc/bass

Fish Shell Design Principles | Feb 2016

Bass might provide some help with that.

Fish shell | May 2015

Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and command prompt | Mar 2015

Fish is optimized for interactive (the i in "fish") use. Not exactly the same as bash-compliance, but if you have bash-based tools (like virtualenv but without counterpart in fish land), check out https://github.com/edc/bass. Bass allows you to use a bash tool in fish, by running the tool in bash and transporting changes in environment variables back to fish shell.