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In bash, I can do the following
$ echo bunny{1..6} bunny1 bunny2 bunny3 bunny4 bunny5 bunny6 Is there a way to achieve the same result in fish?
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Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be generated. This mechanism is similar to filename expansion (see Filename Expansion), but the filenames generated need not exist.
What is one major difference between brace expansion and globs? Globs create a list; brace expansion matches pattern. Brace expansion requires files to exist; globs do not.
It does this by adding the components either to $fish_user_paths or directly to $PATH (if the --path switch is given). It is (by default) safe to use fish_add_path in config. fish, or it can be used once, interactively, and the paths will stay in future because of universal variables.
fish is empty by default. To create a custom prompt create a file ~/. config/fish/functions/fish_prompt. fish and fill it with your prompt.
The short answer is echo bunny(seq 6)
Longer answer: In keeping with fish's philosophy of replacing magical syntax with concrete commands, we should hunt for a Unix command that substitutes for the syntactic construct {1..6}. seq fits the bill; it outputs numbers in some range, and in this case, integers from 1 to 6. fish (to its shame) omits a help page for seq, but it is a standard Unix/Linux command.
Once we have found such a command, we can leverage command substitutions. The command (foo)bar performs command substitution, expanding foo into an array, and may result in multiple arguments. Each argument has 'bar' appended.
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