imports aliases from .bash_aliases to config.fish as abbreviations

bash-to-fish.sh

#!/bin/bash

#
# imports aliases from .bash_aliases to config.fish as abbreviations
#

FISHCFG=~/.config/fish/config.fish
BASH_ALIASES=~/.bash_aliases

echo "" >> $FISHCFG
echo "# bash aliases imported by $0" >> $FISHCFG
# iterate over lines having the alias keyword
grep -E "^[^#]*alias\s" "$BASH_ALIASES" | while read LINE; do
    NAME=$(echo "$LINE" | cut -d' ' -f2-999 | cut -d'=' -f1)
    VALUE=$(echo "$LINE" | cut -d' ' -f2-999 | cut -d'=' -f2-999)

    # skip those because fish has them built in
    if [ $NAME = "grep" -o $NAME = "ll" ]; then continue; fi

    echo "$NAME is $VALUE"
    echo "abbr --add $NAME $VALUE" >> $FISHCFG
done
echo "# end of  bash aliases imported by $0" >> $FISHCFG
echo "" >> $FISHCFG

echo all aliases added to $FISHCFG as abbreviations