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[fish](http://fishshell.com/) - the friendly interactive shell
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fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, 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.
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For more on fish's design philosophy, see the [design document](http://fishshell.com/docs/2.0/design.html).
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## Quick Start
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fish generally works like other shells, like bash or zsh. A few important differences can be found at <http://fishshell.com/tutorial.html> by searching for magic phrase 'unlike other shells'.
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Detailed user documentation is available by running `help` within fish, and also at <http://fishshell.com/docs/2.0/index.html>
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## Building
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fish is written in a sane subset of C++98, with a few components from C++TR1. It builds successfully with g++ 4.2 or later, and with clang. It also will build as C++11.
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fish can be built using autotools or Xcode. autoconf 2.60 or later is required.
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fish requires gettext for translation support.
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### Autotools Build
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autoconf
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./configure
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make [gmake on BSD]
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sudo make install
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### Xcode Development Build
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* Build the `base` target in Xcode
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* Run the fish executable, for example, in `DerivedData/fish/Build/Products/Debug/base/bin/fish`
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### Xcode Build and Install
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xcodebuild install
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sudo ditto /tmp/fish.dst /
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## Help, it didn't build!
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If fish reports that it could not find curses, try installing a curses development package and build again.
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On Debian or Ubuntu you want:
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sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
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on RedHat, CentOS, or Amazon EC2:
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sudo yum install ncurses-devel
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## Packages for Linux
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Instructions on how to find builds for several Linux distros are at <https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/wiki/Nightly-builds>
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## Switching to fish
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If you wish to use fish as your default shell, use the following command:
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chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish
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chsh will prompt you for your password, and change your default shell.
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To switch your default shell back, you can run:
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chsh -s /bin/bash
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Substitute /bin/bash with /bin/tcsh or /bin/zsh as appropriate.
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## Optional Dependencies
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In order to generate completions from man pages compressed with either lzma or xz, you may need to install an extra Python package.
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Python versions prior to 2.6 are not supported. For Python versions 2.6 to 3.2 you need to install the module `backports.lzma`. How to install it depends on your system and how you installed Python. Most Linux distributions should include it as a package named `backports-lzma` (or similar). From version 3.3 onwards, Python already includes the required module.
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## Contact Us
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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 IRC channel [#fish at irc.oftc.net](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=fish).
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Found a bug? Have an awesome idea? Please open an issue on this github page.
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