Finally, a command
line shell for the 90s

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line
shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family.

Autosuggestions

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fish suggests commands as you type based on history and completions, just like a web browser. Watch out, Netscape Navigator 4.0!

Glorious VGA Color

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fish natively supports term256, the state of the art in terminal technology. You'll have an astonishing 256 colors available for use!

Sane Scripting

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fish is fully scriptable, and its syntax is simple, clean, and consistent. You'll never write esac again.

Web Based configuration

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For those lucky few with a graphical computer, you can set your colors and view functions, variables, and history all from a web page.

Man Page Completions

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Other shells support programmable completions, but only fish generates them automatically by parsing your installed man pages.

Works Out Of The Box

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fish will delight you with features like tab completions and syntax highlighting that just work, with nothing new to learn or configure.

Go fish

Installer

10.6+
Installs to /usr/local/

Homebrew


brew install fish

App

10.6+
No installation required.

Debian 6 32 bit

Installs to /usr/

Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit

Installs to /usr/

Other Distributions

Lots more options here

fish-2.0.0.tar.gz

autoconf; ./configure; make; sudo make install

File size: 1.5 MB

SHA1: 2d28553e2ff975f8e5fed6b266f7a940493b6636

Teach me to fish

Tutorial Documentation FAQ

Development

fish development is hosted on github. To clone the git repository:
git clone git://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell.git
Build instructions are provided at the bottom of the github page.

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