fish-shell/share/functions/setenv.fish
2017-04-05 15:31:13 -07:00

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function setenv --description 'Set an env var for csh compatibility.'
# No arguments should cause the current env vars to be displayed.
if not set -q argv[1]
env
return
end
# A single argument should set the named var to nothing.
if not set -q argv[2]
set -gx $argv[1] ''
return
end
# `setenv` accepts only two arguments: the var name and the value. If there are more than two
# args it is an error. The error message is verbatim from csh.
if set -q argv[3]
printf (_ '%s: Too many arguments\n') setenv >&2
return 1
end
# We have exactly two arguments as required by the csh `setenv` command.
set -l var $argv[1]
set -l val $argv[2]
# Validate the variable name.
if not string match -qr '^\w+$' -- $var
# This message is verbatim from csh. We don't really need to do this but if we don't fish
# will display a different error message which might confuse someone expecting the csh
# message.
printf (_ '%s: Variable name must contain alphanumeric characters\n') setenv >&2
return 1
end
# We need to special case some vars to be compatible with fish. In particular how they are
# treated as arrays split on colon characters. All other var values are treated literally.
if contains -- $var PATH CDPATH MANPATH
set -gx $var (string split -- ':' $val)
else
set -gx $var $val
end
end