Autosuggestions

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

fish supports 24 bit true color, the state of the art in terminal technology. Behold the monospaced rainbow.

Sane Scripting

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

Web Based configuration

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

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

Works Out Of The Box

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

Teach me to fish

Go fish

• macOS
• Linux
• BSD
• Windows
• tarball

Release History

Release Notes

• 3.0.0, released December 28, 2018
• 2.7.1, released December 22, 2017 (tarball)
• 2.7.0, released November 23, 2017 (tarball)
• 2.6.0, released June 3, 2017 (tarball)
• 2.5.0, released February 3, 2017 (tarball)
• 2.4.0, released November 8, 2016 (tarball)
• 2.3.1, released July 3, 2016 (tarball)
• 2.3.0, released May 20, 2016 (tarball)
• 2.2.0, released July 12, 2015 (tarball)
• 2.1.2, released February 27, 2015 (tarball)
• 2.1.1, released September 26, 2014 (tarball - note that there are known issues on macOS)
• 2.1.0, released November 1, 2013 (tarball - note that there are known security vulnerabilities)
• 2.0.0, released September 1, 2013 (tarball - note that there are known security vulnerabilities)

Development

Need Help?

• gitter.im channel for quick questions
• Official fish mailing list or IRC channel #fish at irc.oftc.net
• Stack Overflow #fish for scripting, or Superuser #fish for configuration and use
• GitHub issues page for when you find a bug or have an awesome idea!