Question

How do you compare two strings in Fish (like "abc" == "def" in other languages)?

So far, I’ve used a combination of contains (turns out that contains "" $a only returns 0 if $a is the empty string, although that hasn’t seemed to work for me in all cases) and switch (with a case "what_i_want_to_match" and a case '*'). Neither of these methods seem particularly… correct, though.

Answer 1

  if [ "abc" != "def" ] 
        echo "not equal"
  end
  not equal

  if [ "abc" = "def" ]
        echo "equal"
  end

  if [ "abc" = "abc" ]
        echo "equal"
  end
  equal

or one liner:

if [ "abc" = "abc" ]; echo "equal"; end
equal