Tag: fish
Globbing files to pass to CLI command options
I've been using Helm recently as part of a new product offering, and as a way to deploy my various websites. Helm allows providing values to the templates in a Helm chart via one or more values files, which are provided via the option -f. It's often useful to break these into several files, so you can do things like cover common values, and then environment- or namespace-specific values.
However, the -f option only accepts a single value, and doesn't recognize globs.
From zsh to fish
I'm a longtime zsh user. A colleague introduced me to it in 2009, and I was an instant convert, if nothing else than for directory aliases and simpler $PATH management. Within a couple of years, I discovered oh-my-zsh, which put my shell on steroids, giving me a ton of completion capabilities, better prompts, and more.
But a few years ago, I started noticing that my shell load times were getting worse and worse. At that time, I discovered I could easily switch to vanilla zsh with zplug managing a small number of plugins I used (nvm, fzf, and a few others). I also discovered starship, which gave me more prompt options, with faster startup times.
And yet...