fish-shell/doc_src/begin.txt

\section begin begin - start a new block of code

\subsection begin-synopsis Synopsis
\fish{synopsis}
begin; [COMMANDS...;] end
\endfish

\subsection begin-description Description

`begin` is used to create a new block of code.

The block is unconditionally executed. `begin; ...; end` is equivalent to `if true; ...; end`.

`begin` is used to group a number of commands into a block. This allows the introduction of a new variable scope, redirection of the input or output of a set of commands as a group, or to specify precedence when using the conditional commands like `and`.

`begin` does not change the current exit status itself. After the block has completed, `$status` will be set to the status returned by the most recent command.


\subsection begin-example Example

The following code sets a number of variables inside of a block scope. Since the variables are set inside the block and have local scope, they will be automatically deleted when the block ends.

\fish
begin
    set -l PIRATE Yarrr
    ...
end

echo $PIRATE
# This will not output anything, since the PIRATE variable
# went out of scope at the end of the block
\endfish

In the following code, all output is redirected to the file out.html.

\fish
begin
    echo $xml_header
    echo $html_header
    if test -e $file
        ...
    end
    ...
end > out.html
\endfish
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			`\subsection begin-synopsis Synopsis`
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Documentation update Rework for Doxygen >1.8. Moved large parts of the documentation to a simplified format, making use of Markdown enhancements and fixing bad long options. 2014-08-01 02:37:32 +00:00			`begin; [COMMANDS...;] end`
			`\endfish`
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			`\subsection begin-description Description`

Documentation update Rework for Doxygen >1.8. Moved large parts of the documentation to a simplified format, making use of Markdown enhancements and fixing bad long options. 2014-08-01 02:37:32 +00:00			`begin` is used to create a new block of code.
Help cleanup Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands. More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break, builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced, function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd, pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type, ulimit, umask, and while. 2013-05-12 07:56:01 +00:00
Make line length, wrapping and spacing consistent 2014-08-19 12:41:23 +00:00			The block is unconditionally executed. `begin; ...; end` is equivalent to `if true; ...; end`.
Help cleanup Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands. More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break, builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced, function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd, pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type, ulimit, umask, and while. 2013-05-12 07:56:01 +00:00
Make line length, wrapping and spacing consistent 2014-08-19 12:41:23 +00:00			`begin` is used to group a number of commands into a block. This allows the introduction of a new variable scope, redirection of the input or output of a set of commands as a group, or to specify precedence when using the conditional commands like `and`.
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Clarify docs on $status with and/or/begin/end See #4311. 2017-08-11 13:05:28 +00:00			`begin` does not change the current exit status itself. After the block has completed, `$status` will be set to the status returned by the most recent command.
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Make line length, wrapping and spacing consistent 2014-08-19 12:41:23 +00:00			`The following code sets a number of variables inside of a block scope. Since the variables are set inside the block and have local scope, they will be automatically deleted when the block ends.`
Add subdirectories darcs-hash:20050920133155-ac50b-9a14c6c664dd03afbe8e15e7c7998fcfb5c3c750.gz 2005-09-20 13:31:55 +00:00
Documentation update Rework for Doxygen >1.8. Moved large parts of the documentation to a simplified format, making use of Markdown enhancements and fixing bad long options. 2014-08-01 02:37:32 +00:00			`\fish`
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Documentation update Rework for Doxygen >1.8. Moved large parts of the documentation to a simplified format, making use of Markdown enhancements and fixing bad long options. 2014-08-01 02:37:32 +00:00			`set -l PIRATE Yarrr`
			`...`
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Documentation update Rework for Doxygen >1.8. Moved large parts of the documentation to a simplified format, making use of Markdown enhancements and fixing bad long options. 2014-08-01 02:37:32 +00:00
			`echo $PIRATE`
Make line length, wrapping and spacing consistent 2014-08-19 12:41:23 +00:00			`# This will not output anything, since the PIRATE variable`
			`# went out of scope at the end of the block`
Documentation update Rework for Doxygen >1.8. Moved large parts of the documentation to a simplified format, making use of Markdown enhancements and fixing bad long options. 2014-08-01 02:37:32 +00:00			`\endfish`
Minor documentation tweaks and additions darcs-hash:20060720133319-ac50b-ea71dc172f0c60de0d6f1effa2092ebb8d8ca2d9.gz 2006-07-20 13:33:19 +00:00
			`In the following code, all output is redirected to the file out.html.`

Documentation update Rework for Doxygen >1.8. Moved large parts of the documentation to a simplified format, making use of Markdown enhancements and fixing bad long options. 2014-08-01 02:37:32 +00:00			`\fish`
Minor documentation tweaks and additions darcs-hash:20060720133319-ac50b-ea71dc172f0c60de0d6f1effa2092ebb8d8ca2d9.gz 2006-07-20 13:33:19 +00:00			`begin`
Documentation update Rework for Doxygen >1.8. Moved large parts of the documentation to a simplified format, making use of Markdown enhancements and fixing bad long options. 2014-08-01 02:37:32 +00:00			`echo $xml_header`
			`echo $html_header`
			`if test -e $file`
			`...`
			`end`
			`...`
			`end > out.html`
			`\endfish`