# Show information about the named var(s) passed to us. function show --no-scope-shadowing for v in $argv if set -q $v set -l c (count $$v) printf '$%s count=%d\n' $v $c # This test is to work around a bogosity of the BSD `seq` command. If called with # `seq 0` it emits `1`, `0`. Whereas that GNU version outputs nothing. if test $c -gt 0 for i in (seq $c) printf '$%s[%d]=|%s|\n' $v $i $$v[1][$i] end end else echo \$$v is not set end end end