Questions tagged [fish]
The friendly interactive shell (fish) is a Unix shell that focuses on interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness.
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How to migrate universal variables between computers in fish shell [duplicate]
I recently changed laptops. I have all the original files for fish configuration, including the ~/.config/fish/fish_variables. But I cannot source that file and it says I cannot change it. So, how do ...
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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 do command substitution in fish shell?
How would a Bash (or other POSIX shell) command like this have to be expressed in fish?
ls -l $(which vim) # or
ls -l `which vim`
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How to open new terminal window in previous directory using fish shell?
I use fish shell and Gnome-Terminal Version 3.44.
When I open a new terminal I'd like it to start up in the previously-visited directory. How can I implement this via fish shell?
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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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PYTHONPATH defined on multiple vs single line in fish shell
I noticed that
set -xg PYTHONPATH "/path/to/dir1"
set -xg PYTHONPATH $PYTHONPATH "/path/to/dir2"
works, whereas
set -xg PYTHONPATH "/path/to/dir1 /path/to/dir2"
does ...
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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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In fish shell, how to select with the cursor while shift is held?
In all gui text editing, ctrl-arrow moves the cursor by word, and holding shift selects as the cursor moves. Thus ctrl-shift-left selects the previous word. Fish already has the former but I want to ...
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How do I launch the fish shell in WSL through Cmder?
Setting it as the default shell in Ubuntu WSL results in the PATH not working properly, as described in the docs. So I want to avoid that issue by launching it through the terminal.
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FISH - How to hide hostname/computer from prompt?
For context, I am using FISH 3.1.0.
I looked in fish_config, but none of the prompt options just remove the hostname/computer while keeping the rest the same.
Is there a way to keep most of the ...
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Change the startup directory to something other than HOME
By default, when I open the fish shell, my working directory is the home directory. Is there a way to change the default working directory on startup, without having to edit the HOME variable?
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I deleted fish shell and now VS Code terminal doesn't work
I have been working on a tutorial in Angular. Everything was working fine before I went to work today. I came back to my home computer after work today and the fish shell I was using within VS code ...
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tmux changes shell prompt
Ubuntu 20.04 (running inside VirtualBox, if that's important.)
tmux 3.0a (installed via apt)
fish 3.4 (and earlier 3.3)
starship.rs 1.1.1
Font: FiraCode Mono
I have configured my prompt to look as ...
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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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iTerm2 clear screen should not delete output of running command
When I used command + k the output of the actual running command was not cleared. Now with my new MacBook I don't know how to set this feature again. Has anyone an idea?
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