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Make bash as close to fish as possible
I love the fish shell and use it exclusively in MacOS but I use bash everywhere else because its the only thing installed. Having felt the pain of maintaining configuration files for the two shells, I'...
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What, if any, is the equivalent of bash's select...in...do..done in fish?
I had finessed in bash a function that changes to any directory below the current working directory by having that directory name as a parameter to the function. If there are multiple results by that ...
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Reuse .bash_profile for Fish in Mac
I'm using iTerm on my Mac and I have a .bash_profile that I have been comfortably using. I recently got to know about fish bash and I installed it on my Mac and all of a sudden my .bash_profile is not ...
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In fish shell, which command is equivalent to bash's compgen?
compgen is a useful command, and fish is an excellent command shell. But I cannot find an equivalent in fish.
I write one by myself:
function compgen --description 'Print a list of documented fish ...
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Ctrl-enter for fish shell
I had tried to create some accept completion and execute right away combination in fish on pressing Ctrl+Enter.
function fish_user_key_bindings
bind \c\n accept-autosuggestion execute
end
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Trouble installing fish shell on OS X non-admin user group
I am struggling to install the fish shell on OS X El Capitan.
My user structure is setup so I have an administrator account and a standard account. The standard account is the one that I use and ...
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using FISH shell -- set default folder for multiple tabs?
I'm using fish shell in OS X. Using the standard bash shell, you can open multiple tabs in Terminal, cd to a different directory in each, and then save the setup as a Window Group (via Window > ...
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How to get Fish shell and NVM both installed with Homebrew to work together?
I am trying to manage my packages for OSX using Homebrew as much a I can. I have installed both the Fish Shell and NVM using Homebrew but cannot get Fish to recognize my NVM installation. NVM ...
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Custom bash 'context' when running from FISH
First of all, I'm on OSX10. My default shell is BASH, which I have set up (through .profile and .bashrc) to automatically run the FISH shell when I open my terminal emulator. This allows me to set up ...
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Is there a way to "source" a sh script from the fish shell?
I like to put many of my environment variable definitions in the .profile script. If I am using a POSIX-compatible interactive shell like bash, I can use the source command to re-export the ...
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"." command doesn't work in fish
I'm using fish and I'm trying to activate a virtual env, so I tried "source" command which apparently is not available in fish.
And I ended up with this link which says:
". (a single period) is an ...
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What is the equivalent of bash's !$ and !! in the fish shell?
I've been using bash for a decade or so and have gotten used to being able to type !$ to repeat the last argument, e.g.:
$ mkdir foo
$ cd !$
cd foo
(That last line is printed by the shell to tell ...
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How do I run make && make install while in fish shell
I have installed the fish shell, and I'm very happy with it ... but I cannot run the following command:
make && make install
This works nicely in bash... How do I run it in fish shell?
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Go-lang go tool works with Bash but not Fish
For those of you who have no idea what Fish is: http://fishshell.com/
Similarly, if you are not familiar with a Go coding environment and still wish to try and figure out this small puzzle, here is ...
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Quote or bracket completion in bash, without pressing TAB
Is there any way to have bash autocomplete matching symbols like '"[{( with their right handed counterparts?
I would like to do this without having to press tab.
For example typing the string echo " ...
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