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Preserve command history in chronological order (in fish)
I have noticed that default behaviour for storing command history is only storing the latest entry.
Typing ls and then ls -al and then entering history would show:
ls -al
ls
Typing ls once more would ...
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How to remove leading file path information from fish shell tab-complete suggestions?
Using fish, typing ls <tab> in an example directory, the terminal displays:
$ ls
bar/ dir/ foo/
Continuing with d<tab><tab> this becomes:
$ ls dir/
dir/moredir/ dir/otherdir/ ...
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Is it possible to have an abbreviation in a shell anywhere in a command?
I have a directory which has a really long path. However, I use this directory constantly and I cannot move it (WSL Windows directory). I generally use z to jump around to it quickly which is useful, ...
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/bin/bash shell (macOS) throwing `-bash: declare: -A: invalid option` error message at shell start
I briefly changed my default shell on macOS Catalina (10.15.1) to Fish, following the steps in Fish's documentation.
First, I executed > echo /usr/local/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells followed ...
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how to enable command line navigation shortcuts in fish shell running in iTerm on Mac
Setup: MacOs Mojave, iTerm, Fish shell 3.0.2, using fisher have theme bob-the-fish installed as well.
Would like to be able to use command line navigation keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl-A to get t ...
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Running command for bash in fish shell
I'm trying to identify all the large files in my git repo history and came across this command posted here.
git rev-list --objects --all \
| git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname) %(...
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Issue with wrong command entered in fish-shell and it's output
Actually I am using fish these days and I completely switched from bash to fish (with chsh & terminal startup command) but the matter is when I enter a wrong command e.g. qwerty its output is: ...
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Why does fish shell create a hidden process in iTerm2
I've moved from bash to fish shell in iTerm2. However, whenever I start iTerm2, I receive the following error message:
A session ended very soon after starting. Check that the command in
profile ...
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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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Unescaped commandline content in fish shell
Is there a way to get the unescaped content of command line in fish? I mean if command line is like ...
$ ls 'foo' "bar"
... the desired output would be ls 'foo' "bar".
The commandline fish command ...
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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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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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