fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/fish.rst
Fabian Boehm 3dc49d9d93 Allow installable builds to be installed into a specific path (#10923)
* Pass path to install()

It was dirty that it would re-get $HOME there anyway.

* Import wcs2osstring

* Allow installable builds to use a relocatable tree

If you give a path to `--install`, it will install fish into a
relocatable tree there, so

PATH/share/fish contains the datafiles
PATH/bin/fish contains the fish executable
PATH/etc/fish is sysconf

I am absolutely not sold on that last one - the way I always used
sysconfdir is that it is always /etc. This would be easy to fix but
should probably also be fixed for "regular" relocatable builds (no
idea who uses them).

An attempt at #10916

* Move install path into "install/" subdir

* Disable --install harder if not installable
2024-12-22 18:16:07 +01:00

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.. _cmd-fish:
.. program::fish
fish - the friendly interactive shell
=====================================
Synopsis
--------
.. synopsis::
fish [OPTIONS] [FILE [ARG ...]]
fish [OPTIONS] [-c COMMAND [ARG ...]]
Description
-----------
:command:`fish` is a command-line shell written mainly with interactive use in mind.
This page briefly describes the options for invoking :command:`fish`.
The :ref:`full manual <intro>` is available in HTML by using the :command:`help` command from inside fish, and in the `fish-doc(1)` man page.
The :ref:`tutorial <tutorial>` is available as HTML via ``help tutorial`` or in `man fish-tutorial`.
The following options are available:
**-c** or **--command=COMMAND**
Evaluate the specified commands instead of reading from the commandline, passing additional positional arguments through ``$argv``.
**-C** or **--init-command=COMMANDS**
Evaluate specified commands after reading the configuration but before executing command specified by **-c** or reading interactive input.
**-d** or **--debug=DEBUG_CATEGORIES**
Enables debug output and specify a pattern for matching debug categories.
See :ref:`Debugging <debugging-fish>` below for details.
**-o** or **--debug-output=DEBUG_FILE**
Specifies a file path to receive the debug output, including categories and :envvar:`fish_trace`.
The default is stderr.
**-i** or **--interactive**
The shell is interactive.
**--install[=PATH]**
When built as self-installable (via cargo), this will unpack fish's datafiles and place them in ~/.local/share/fish/install/.
Fish will also ask to do this automatically when run interactively.
If PATH is given, fish will install itself into a relocatable directory tree rooted at that path.
That means it will install the datafiles to PATH/share/fish and copy itself to PATH/bin/fish.
**-l** or **--login**
Act as if invoked as a login shell.
**-N** or **--no-config**
Do not read configuration files.
**-n** or **--no-execute**
Do not execute any commands, only perform syntax checking.
**-p** or **--profile=PROFILE_FILE**
when :command:`fish` exits, output timing information on all executed commands to the specified file.
This excludes time spent starting up and reading the configuration.
**--profile-startup=PROFILE_FILE**
Will write timing for ``fish`` startup to specified file.
**-P** or **--private**
Enables :ref:`private mode <private-mode>`: **fish** will not access old or store new history.
**--print-rusage-self**
When :command:`fish` exits, output stats from getrusage.
**--print-debug-categories**
Print all debug categories, and then exit.
**-v** or **--version**
Print version and exit.
**-f** or **--features=FEATURES**
Enables one or more comma-separated :ref:`feature flags <featureflags>`.
The ``fish`` exit status is generally the :ref:`exit status of the last foreground command <variables-status>`.
.. _debugging-fish:
Debugging
---------
While fish provides extensive support for :ref:`debugging fish scripts <debugging>`, it is also possible to debug and instrument its internals.
Debugging can be enabled by passing the **--debug** option.
For example, the following command turns on debugging for background IO thread events, in addition to the default categories, i.e. *debug*, *error*, *warning*, and *warning-path*:
::
> fish --debug=iothread
Available categories are listed by ``fish --print-debug-categories``. The **--debug** option accepts a comma-separated list of categories, and supports glob syntax.
The following command turns on debugging for *complete*, *history*, *history-file*, and *profile-history*, as well as the default categories:
::
> fish --debug='complete,*history*'
Debug messages output to stderr by default. Note that if :envvar:`fish_trace` is set, execution tracing also outputs to stderr by default. You can output to a file using the **--debug-output** option:
::
> fish --debug='complete,*history*' --debug-output=/tmp/fish.log --init-command='set fish_trace on'
These options can also be changed via the :envvar:`FISH_DEBUG` and :envvar:`FISH_DEBUG_OUTPUT` variables.
The categories enabled via **--debug** are *added* to the ones enabled by $FISH_DEBUG, so they can be disabled by prefixing them with **-** (**reader-*,-ast*** enables reader debugging and disables ast debugging).
The file given in **--debug-output** takes precedence over the file in :envvar:`FISH_DEBUG_OUTPUT`.