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Can someone help me convert this bash function to fish? It would also be nice if you could explain what these do like "${@%%.app}”, 's/ /.*/g’, "$@\” etc.
bid() {
local shortname location
# combine all args as regex
# (and remove ".app" from the end if it exists due to autocomplete)
shortname=$(echo "${@%%.app}"|sed 's/ /.*/g')
# if the file is a full match in apps folder, roll with it
if [ -d "/Applications/$shortname.app" ]; then
location="/Applications/$shortname.app"
else # otherwise, start searching
location=$(mdfind -onlyin /Applications -onlyin ~/Applications -onlyin /Developer/Applications 'kMDItemKind==Application'|awk -F '/' -v re="$shortname" 'tolower($NF) ~ re {print $0}'|head -n1)
fi
# No results? Die.
[[ -z $location || $location = "" ]] && echo "$1 not found, I quit" && return
# Otherwise, find the bundleid using spotlight metadata
bundleid=$(mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier -r "$location")
# return the result or an error message
[[ -z $bundleid || $bundleid = "" ]] && echo "Error getting bundle ID for \"$@\"" || echo "$location: $bundleid”
}
Thanks very much in advance.
