Functions are definitely a nice tool in fish to help you work more efficient and utilize them in the daily life. Recently during a lab course one had to describe the function of different cpp
-files. As Markdown is the way to comment them in gitlab or github I thought that it might be beneficial to have the possibility to create a markdown table just in the terminal. In fish you can easily write your function or if you are more familiar with bash, just use the latter. A brief description of the script:
- Create a variable which contains the header of the table (in my case just two columns)
- Iterate through the desired file type, here it’s
cpp
files - Append the new line to the
header
variable - use
printf
to get a nice output
Fish Function
function md_table
set header "| header | header |\n| ------ | ------ |\n"
for i in *.cpp;
set -a header "| $i | |\n";
end;
printf "$header";
end
Bash Script
#!/usr/bin/env bash
header="| header | header |\n| ------ | ------ |\n";
for i in *sh; do;
header+="| ${i} | |\n";
done;
printf "$header"