Fish shell: How to disable help message?

Question

When I start fish, it prints:

Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type `help` for instructions on how to use fish

And then the prompt.

I've actually used fish for a while so I don't need this welcome message. How can I disable it?

Answer 1

(From https://fishshell.com/docs/current/faq.html#how-do-i-change-the-greeting-message)

Change the value of the variable fish_greeting or create a fish_greeting function. For example, to remove the greeting use:

set -U fish_greeting

Or if you prefer not to use a universal variable, use:

set -g fish_greeting

in config.fish (this is what worked on my system).

Answer 2

this has already been answered here but tldr youll want to use the command set -U fish_greeting ""

you can customise the welcome prompt too by typing what you want in the double quotes e.g set -U fish_greeting "🐟"