Name: fish-shell
Owner: The user-friendly shell
Description: The user-friendly command line shell.
Created: 2012-05-10 03:00:55.0
Updated: 2018-01-19 00:29:52.0
Pushed: 2018-01-18 23:05:23.0
Homepage: http://fishshell.com
Size: 41132
Language: Shell
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fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, and the rest of the family. fish includes features like syntax highlighting, autosuggest-as-you-type, and fancy tab completions that just work, with no configuration required.
For more on fish's design philosophy, see the design document.
fish generally works like other shells, like bash or zsh. A few important differences can be found at https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html by searching for the magic phrase “unlike other shells”.
Detailed user documentation is available by running help
within fish, and also at https://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html
fish can be installed:
brew install fish
sudo port install fish
Packages for Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS are available from the openSUSE Build Service.
Packages for Ubuntu are available from the fish PPA, and can be installed using the following commands:
apt-add-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-2
apt-get update
apt-get install fish
Instructions for other distributions may be found at fishshell.com.
fish can be installed using Cygwin Setup (under the Shells category).
fish can be installed into Windows Subsystem for Linux using the instructions under Packages for Linux for the appropriate image (eg Ubuntu).
If packages are not available for your platform, GPG-signed tarballs are available from fishshell.com and fish-shell on GitHub.
See the Building section for instructions.
Once installed, run fish
from your current shell to try fish out!
Running fish requires:
tput
command)gettext
command), if compiled with translation supportbasename
, cat
, cut
, date
, dircolors
, dirname
, ls
,
mkdir
, mkfifo
, mktemp
, rm
, seq
, sort
, stat
, stty
, tail
, tr
, tty
, uname
,
uniq
, wc
, and whoami
awk
find
grep
hostname
kill
ps
sed
The following optional features also have specific requirements:
--help
option or print usage messages require nroff
and
ul
(manual page formatters) to do sobackports.lzma
module for Python 2.7fish_config
Web configuration tool requires Python 2.7, 3.3 or greater, and a web browserxsel
or pbcopy
/pbpaste
utilitiesIf you wish to use fish as your default shell, use the following command:
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish
chsh will prompt you for your password, and change your default shell. Substitute /usr/local/bin/fish
with whatever path to fish is in your /etc/shells
file.
Use the following command if you didn't already add your fish path to /etc/shells
.
echo /usr/local/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
To switch your default shell back, you can run:
chsh -s /bin/bash
Substitute /bin/bash
with /bin/tcsh
or /bin/zsh
as appropriate.
You may need to logout/login for the change (chsh) to take effect.
Compiling fish requires:
Compiling from git (that is, not a released tarball) also requires:
r build; cd build
e .. # add -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release for release build
install
reconf --no-recursive #if building from Git
nfigure
make install
base
target in XcodeDerivedData/fish/Build/Products/Debug/base/bin/fish
xcodebuild install
sudo ditto /tmp/fish.dst /
sudo make install-doc
If fish reports that it could not find curses, try installing a curses development package and build again.
On Debian or Ubuntu you want:
sudo apt-get install build-essential ncurses-dev libncurses5-dev gettext autoconf
On RedHat, CentOS, or Amazon EC2:
sudo yum install ncurses-devel
See the Guide for Developers.
Questions, comments, rants and raves can be posted to the official fish mailing list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users or join us on our gitter.im channel or IRC channel #fish at irc.oftc.net. Or use the fish tag on Stackoverflow for questions related to fish script and the fish tag on Superuser for all other questions (e.g., customizing colors, changing key bindings).
Found a bug? Have an awesome idea? Please open an issue on this github page.