[fish](https://fishshell.com/) - the friendly interactive shell [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/fish-shell/fish-shell.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/fish-shell/fish-shell) ================================================ 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](https://fishshell.com/docs/current/design.html). ## Quick Start fish generally works like other shells, like bash or zsh. A few important differences can be found at by searching for the magic phrase "unlike other shells". Detailed user documentation is available by running `help` within fish, and also at ## Getting fish ### macOS fish can be installed: * using [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/): `brew install fish` * using [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org/): `sudo port install fish` * using the [installer from fishshell.com](https://fishshell.com/) * as a [standalone app from fishshell.com](https://fishshell.com/) ### Packages for Linux Packages for Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS are available from the [openSUSE Build Service](https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=shells%3Afish%3Arelease%3A2&package=fish). Packages for Ubuntu are available from the [fish PPA](https://launchpad.net/~fish-shell/+archive/ubuntu/release-2), and can be installed using the following commands: ``` sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-2 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fish ``` Instructions for other distributions may be found at [fishshell.com](https://fishshell.com). ### Windows fish can be installed using [Cygwin](https://cygwin.com/) Setup (under the **Shells** category). fish can be installed into Windows Services for Linux using the instructions under *Packages for Linux* for the appropriate image (eg Ubuntu). ### Building from source If packages are not available for your platform, GPG-signed tarballs are available from [fishshell.com](https://fishshell.com/) and [fish-shell on GitHub](https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases). See the *Building* section for instructions. ## Running fish Once installed, run `fish` from your current shell to try fish out! ### Dependencies Running fish requires: * a curses implementation such as ncurses (libraries and the `tput` command) * PCRE2 library - a copy is included with fish * MuParser library - a copy is included with fish * gettext (library and `gettext` command), if compiled with translation support * basic system utilities including `basename`, `cat`, `cut`, `date`, `dircolors`, `dirname`, `ls`, `mkdir`, `mkfifo`, `mktemp`, `rm`, `seq`, `sort`, `stat`, `stty`, `tail`, `tr`, `tty`, `uname`, `uniq`, `wc`, and `whoami` * a number of common UNIX utilities: * `awk` * `find` * `grep` * `hostname` * `kill` * `ps` * `sed` The following optional features also have specific requirements: * builtin commands that have the `--help` option or print usage messages require `nroff` and `ul` (manual page formatters) to do so * completion generation from manual pages requires Python 2.7, 3.3 or greater, and possibly the `backports.lzma` module for Python 2.7 * the `fish_config` Web configuration tool requires Python 2.7, 3.3 or greater, and a web browser * system clipboard integration (with the default Ctrl-V and Ctrl-X bindings) require either the `xsel` or `pbcopy`/`pbpaste` utilities * prompts which support showing VCS information (Git, Mercurial or Subversion) require these utilities ### Switching to fish If 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. ## Building ### Dependencies Compiling fish requires: * a C++11 compiler (g++ 4.8 or later, or clang 3.3 or later) * either GNU Make (all platforms) or Xcode (macOS only) * a curses implementation such as ncurses (headers and libraries) * PCRE2 (headers and libraries) - a copy is included with fish * MuParser (headers and libraries) - a copy is included with fish * gettext (headers and libraries) - optional, for translation support Compiling from git (that is, not a released tarball) also requires: * either Xcode (macOS only) or the following Autotools utilities (all platforms): * autoconf 2.60 or later * automake 1.13 or later * Doxygen (1.8.7 or later) - optional, for documentation ### Autotools Build autoreconf --no-recursive [if building from Git] ./configure make [gmake on BSD] sudo make install [sudo gmake install on BSD] ### Xcode Development Build * Build the `base` target in Xcode * Run the fish executable, for example, in `DerivedData/fish/Build/Products/Debug/base/bin/fish` ### Xcode Build and Install xcodebuild install sudo ditto /tmp/fish.dst / sudo make install-doc ### Help, it didn't build! 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 ## Contributing Changes to the Code See the [Guide for Developers](CONTRIBUTING.md). ## Contact Us Questions, comments, rants and raves can be posted to the official fish mailing list at or join us on our [gitter.im channel](https://gitter.im/fish-shell/fish-shell) or IRC channel [#fish at irc.oftc.net](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=fish). Or use the [fish tag on Stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fish) for questions related to fish script and the [fish tag on Superuser](https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/fish) 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.