Questions tagged [fish]
The friendly interactive shell (fish) is a Unix shell that focuses on interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness.
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Is it possible to have an abbreviation in a shell anywhere in a command?
I have a directory which has a really long path. However, I use this directory constantly and I cannot move it (WSL Windows directory). I generally use z to jump around to it quickly which is useful, ...
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distinguish C-i from Tab in Fish?
My fish configuration contains following bindings:
bind \ci nextd-or-forward-word
bind \co prevd-or-backward-word
bind \t complete
When I comment out complete then directory navigation to works as ...
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How to enable Fish shell themes from ssh connection
So, I’m learning to transition to using the Fish shell. I’ve only ever used the Bash shell, but I’ve enjoyed using Fish. I found this custom shell theme called “Shellder” (https://github.com/...
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fish shell outputs ⏎ (i.e. an “abandon line”) during startup on smaller terminal sizes
Whenever I open a new terminal window (that's <100 columns wide) Fish prompts me with:
⏎
foo@bar ~>
I'm not expecting that first line with ⏎ to appear! If it's 100 columns or wider, then this ...
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How do i pass function parameter as string in fish shell
Octave has an --eval option that takes a sting like "sqrt(4)" and outputs "ans = 2".
I want to create a function that passes the a parameter as string so i can call it like this:
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OhMyFish does not show the hostname and computer name
OhMyFish does not show the hostname and computer name by default.
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Is there any way to change this setting so that it shows the hostname and computer name like how it is shown in the default ...
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Why fish shell does not allow function named `-`
I am trying to use fish as my default interactive shell. I was previously using bash and there was support for alias named - (ASCII hyphen, 0x2d). Why does not fish allow creation of alias or function ...
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How to I persist prepended items to PATH in fish shell?
My PATH Prefixes Don't Persist
I'm using Fish v3.2.0. According to the documentation, set -U fish_user_paths should persistently ensure that the directories stored in it should be looked up before ...
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Run the current command and pipe the output to fzf
What would be an easy way to bind a key binding from fish to run the current command prompt and pipe it to fzf for easy search/selection?
i.e. a 1 key-press way of accomplishing | fzf (enter)?
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Ranger image preview not working in URXVT running Fish shell until I open an image in Feh
I recently started using the Fish shell, and after opening a new URXVT instance I cannot get image previews in Ranger until I open an image first (using feh, in my case). Once an image has been opened ...
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How can I ask `fish` to enumerate all the locations it's reading configuration from?
When I start fish, I'd like it to print every location it's reading configuration, profiles, and customizations from, so that I can:
understand which specific paths I need to backup if I want to ...
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Is there a fish way of doing zsh's noglob builtin?
From https://linux.die.net/man/1/zshmisc :
noglob
Filename generation (globbing) is not performed on any of the words.
zsh example:
$ ls /*
<lots of output>
$ noglob ls /*
ls: cannot access '/...
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Where is the best place to add an “ssh-add” command in fish shell startup?
At some point I added an ssh-add invocation to my config.fish file. So every time I open a terminal, that runs for a couple of seconds.
Is there a better place to set this, so that it runs upon login? ...
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MobaXTerm “Follow Terminal Folder” STFP & Fish Shell
MobaXterm's "Follow Terminal Folder"/"Follow SSH Path" feature works great when remote SSH into a linux computer, it shows directory & files to the left as you work in the ...
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Minimal Backup of Fish Shell Config
Thanks to the influence of many, including one who has a passing association to a certain green tinged distro I have moved over to fish (from zsh).
However config is quite different and I couldn't ...
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Execute two or more commands simultaneously in shell script
It is often very helpful to run commands in parallel in a shell script, but I cannot find ways to do it. Is this possible? If so, how would I achieve that? I'm mainly interested in doing that for fish....
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Change the startup directory to something other than HOME
By default, when I open the fish shell, my working directory is the home directory. Is there a way to change the default working directory on startup, without having to edit the HOME variable?
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How can I change the prompt to always show the current path?
I want to continue using the fish shell with as little changes to default setup as possible.
But there is one thing that really bugs me. When the terminal window is cramped the prompt just becomes >...
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tmux run a pipe/chain of commands with keybinding
How can I run a chain of command like in shells with tmux? I want to run multiple commands based on success of them. I want to echo out to terminal (or command bar)
E.g. I have a keybinding to reload ...
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/bin/bash shell (macOS) throwing `-bash: declare: -A: invalid option` error message at shell start
I briefly changed my default shell on macOS Catalina (10.15.1) to Fish, following the steps in Fish's documentation.
First, I executed > echo /usr/local/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells followed ...
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Is there a Fish equivalent to “bash --rcfile ~/.bashrc”
I've just moved over to fish shell after years of Bash. I've ported all of my functions over pretty easily except for a very simple one I have called mkroot:
mkroot () {
sudo bash --rcfile ~/...
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how to enable command line navigation shortcuts in fish shell running in iTerm on Mac
Setup: MacOs Mojave, iTerm, Fish shell 3.0.2, using fisher have theme bob-the-fish installed as well.
Would like to be able to use command line navigation keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl-A to get t ...
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tmux.conf is giving syntax error
My .tmux.conf is
# https://github.com/seebi/tmux-colors-solarized/blob/master/tmuxcolors-256.conf
set-option -g status-style bg=colour235,fg=colour136,default # bg=base02, fg=yellow
# set window ...
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Fish: Concise way to output elements of list on separate lines
I am wondering if there is a concise way to output the elements of a fish list on separate lines.
I know I can do e.g. echo $PATH | tr ' ' '\n' to achieve the desired output, e.g.:
/usr/local/sbin
/...
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Redirect Streams
I am trying to redirect the results of rg to comm to compare the match intersection. Fish seems to think that I will be passing a file path and and not the stream.
> comm -12 <(rg -l "\\bar\\b" ...
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What's the easiest way to prepend the current time to the fish prompt?
I'd like to see the current time in my fish prompt so that I can always see for example when I started the last command. I don't want to install extensions.
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fish prompt returns to defaults after change in fish_config
I've been using Fish for a while and after installing Oh-My-Fish the prompt changed to the default OMF prompt. And I couldn't change to what I was using before, one of the default Fish prompts called "...
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Why might I not see stty key changes reflected in “stty -a”
I'm trying to change some key bindings in my console (Konsole). If I map intr to Ctrl-k, by running
stty intr \^k
I don't see the change reflected in
stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 46; columns 172;...
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How to copy fish config files to remote computer?
I am looking for instructions or a script to copy my fish config files to a new computer via scp. Or at least build a tar file with all of them.
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Fish Shell - can't find where “la” is defined as “ls -la”
On both my Mac and Ubuntu when I type "la" in Fish Shell I receive output identical to that from "ls -la". I thought I might have defined it as a function. However, I can not find "la" being defined ...
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Installing Homebrew with fish-shell
I recently had a mishap with MySQL and when I uninstalled it from System Preferences it uninstalled Homebrew as well (I checked the erase all files that are related to MySQL, which was probably not ...
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vim displays rbg codes in quickfix bar before error output
Recently I've started using :make and various other commands that make use of the quickfix bar. However the output it produces has this initial line of an escape character and rgb codes.
I was able ...
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Can't find command after setting PATH in fish
I'm struggling to add /usr/local/bin to my PATH so I can use geckodriver, which is located in /usr/local/bin/geckodriver. I tried the to add the following to my config.fish
set -U fish_user_paths /...
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No colors in weechat, tig, htop, ranger, etc
I noticed that on my Mac I don't have any colors in e.g., tig, weechat, htop or ranger. On my linux I do. It happens in all terminal apps I have (alacritty, iterm and Terminal.app), in zsh, fish and ...
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Fish generated Rsync command has unexpected effects
I am using fish shell and I have a helper function to generate a rsync command with my parameters all set. The final rsync command should be like this (the command is in one line, I made it multiline ...
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How to Expand Abbreviations Inline in Fish Shell?
I'm trying to save some time in Fish Shell by setting an abbreviation (nu) to expand to the string:
my-username@my-ip-address:/home/my-username
What I'm hoping to achieve is to enter:
scp some-file ...
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Powerline and Fish: How can I remove the large whitespace between the shell prompt and cursor?
I recently started using Arch Linux and just installed Powerline and Fish (version 3.0.0) last week. In my terminal, which is Termite (version 14), there's a large (horizontal) space between the shell ...
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Running command for bash in fish shell
I'm trying to identify all the large files in my git repo history and came across this command posted here.
git rev-list --objects --all \
| git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname) %(...
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Do not store failed commands in fish history
I was wondering if it is possible to avoid storing commands in fish history which have failed. At the moment I e.g. have commands like :q stored in my fish history, because I accidentally typed that ...
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How to combine the output of multiple commands in fish?
Say I want to send the output of to commands into another.
cat a.txt && ls
I can do this:
fish -c "cat a.txt && ls" | another_command
But it seems clunky, is there a way to do this ...
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Fish Shell: remapping VI-mode keybindings
I want to remap some of the default movement bindings in fish's vi-mode (I'm using version 3.0). Specifically I want to change the $ and ^ key mappings to be E and B respectively to match what I use ...
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How to set a specific version of Java as JAVA_HOME in Fish in macOS
I was using Bash as my default shell on macOS but I decided to switch to Fish.
I am trying to switch between different versions of Java. In bash it was done using the ~/.bash_profile
export ...
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Void folder is taking megabytes of space in OSX
xxx@MacBook- ~/D/p/a/Project5_min> du -sh *
2.6M app
4.0K build.gradle
60K gradle
4.0K gradle.properties
8.0K gradlew
4.0K gradlew.bat
4.0K instruction.txt
4.0K local....
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Fish Shell - Virtualenv path not prepended to PATH
I am on a Mac running macOS Mojave. I run Iterm2 for terminal and fish version 3.0.0. I also use pipenv to manage my local development.
I have this problem where when I activate a python virtual env, ...
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Failed to login after setting fish as default shell
I tried fish for a while, and then i wanted to set it as my default shell. I edited /etc/passwd and changed the shell of my user to /bin/fish.
The problem is I couldn't login anymore. I tried through ...
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Fish commandline: get cursor position in current process
With fish commandline command I can get current process part of commandline and current cursor position in entire buffer, but not in current process, e.g for commandline buffer
> echo test; echo $...
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How can I fix this error when trying to install Oh-My-Fish?
I am using fish via Cygwin on Windows 10; whenever I try to install OMF, I am presented with this error:
curl -L https://get.oh-my.fish | fish.exe
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed ...
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Wrap command with options in fish function
Is there a way to wrap a command with options in a function, so that completions for that command with the options are shown?
For example, I want to be able to do this:
function remove --wraps='...
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Setup different path for fish shell temporally
User libraries are normally in /usr/local/lib. However I want to build some third party libraries in for example /Users/user/Public/lib.
I only want to do it during my testing. Is there a elegant way ...
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how to open tcp connection in fish shell
I am looking for a way to open TCP connections in fish shell.
In bash, I can do the following to open a TCP connection. This is quick telnet type test when telnet is not installed.
$ echo > /dev/...
