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Explore Stack Internal I have the same # of end statements in both the baz file and the code I copy/pasted into the shell, so I suspect the error statement is a red herring? If so, I don't know what the real error could be.
My goal is to be able to construct a fish function inside the heredoc string of a bash script, then source that bash script from a fish script so that I can call that function. Where did I go wrong here?
My goal is to be able to construct a fish function inside the heredoc string of a bash script, then source that bash script from a fish script so that I can call that function. Where did I go wrong here?
I have the same # of end statements in both the baz file and the code I copy/pasted into the shell, so I suspect the error statement is a red herring? If so, I don't know what the real error could be.
My goal is to be able to construct a fish function inside the heredoc string of a bash script, then source that bash script from a fish script so that I can call that function. Where did I go wrong here?
richiethomas@richie ~/foo (master) [0|1]> ./baz | source - (line 1): Missing end to balance this function definition function bar\n bar ^ from sourcing file - source: Error while reading file '<stdin>' richiethomas@richie ~/foo (master) [0|1]> ./baz | source - (line 1): Missing end to balance this function definition function bar\n ^ from sourcing file - source: Error while reading file '<stdin>' richiethomas@richie ~/foo (master) [0|1]> ./baz | source - (line 1): Missing end to balance this function definition function bar ^ from sourcing file - source: Error while reading file '<stdin>' I have a bash script which cats a heredoc string, and I'm running it inside a fish shell and then piping it to a source call, like so:
~/foo/baz:
1 #!/usr/bin/env bash 2 3 cat << EOS 4 function bar 5 echo 'Hello world' 6 end 7 EOS From the fish shell:
richiethomas@richie ~/foo (master) [126]> ./baz | source richiethomas@richie ~/foo (master)> bar Hello world As shown above, this results in the function bar being callable when I run ./baz | source.
However, I get an error when I change the implementation of the bar function to the following:
1 #!/usr/bin/env bash 2 3 cat << EOS 4 function bar 5 set myVar 5 6 switch $myVar 7 case 4 8 echo '4' 9 case 5 10 echo '5' 11 case '*' 12 echo 'Not found' 13 end 14 end 15 EOS When I try to source this, I get the following error:
richiethomas@richie ~/foo (master) [0|1]> ./baz | source - (line 1): Missing end to balance this function definition function bar\n ^ from sourcing file - source: Error while reading file '<stdin>' An equivalent function + switch statement works fine when I paste it directly in the fish shell:
richiethomas@richie ~/foo (master) [0|1]> function bar set myVar 5 switch $myVar case 4 echo 'it is 4!' case 5 echo 'it is 5!' case '*' echo 'not found' end end richiethomas@richie ~/foo (master)> bar it is 5! My goal is to be able to construct a fish function inside the heredoc string of a bash script, then source that bash script from a fish script so that I can call that function. Where did I go wrong here?