Questions tagged [fish]
Fish is a unix shell with a clean design and a limited but powerful feature set.
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Set default interpreter in fish shell
I've installed mill on arch linux with fish as my default shell. Since the file /usr/bin/mill doesn't start with a shebang, fish won't execute the file. Instead it responds with
$ mill
Failed to ...
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Automatically print number of lines of command line output
In my fish shell, I am using fish command timer to automatically show the duration of each command after it has been executed. This is a neat feature, which I recommend.
Now I want something similar ...
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Tracing environment variable modification
Pesky $PATH, there's one item I used to use ~/.workspace/bin. I just can't figure where its coming from. I changed the user shell to /bin/sh, and logged in from tty, checked PATH, and it was clear of ...
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Issue with type force PATH search
This is Bash. The behavior is similar in fish.
$ which python
/usr/bin/python
$ alias py=python
$ type py
py is aliased to `python'
And then, running type -P py prints nothing, where as I expected ...
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How to install fish in a remote server I cannot sudo?
I want to install the fish shell in a remote server I have no sudo privileges at, so that I can use it whenever I ssh.
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Does one string contain another in fish shell?
I am working on my fish.config for using the fish shell.
I am trying to compare strings using bash syntax but fish doesn't accept the syntax. There is clearly another way to do it. Any suggestions ...
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Inconsistent newlines in fish shell under Lubuntu 18.10
I have recently installed Lubuntu 18.10 and have found the qterminal messes with the behavior of the fish shell.
Fish shell adds a newline to the end of commands who's outputs don't already end in ...
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fish shell : exec format error
On an Ubuntu ($ uname -a : Linux kumanaku 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux), I just installed fish ($ fish --version : fish, version 2.7.1) ...
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How to use fish on remote servers that have it installed without changing login shell?
I regularly ssh on several different servers, some of which don't have fish installed, but many do. I'd like to get fish as shell if available (changing midway is always tedious, and you lose the ...
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Terminal shows non-ascii? characters in UTF-16 hex codes
todoroki@todoroki-VJZ13B ~>printf "ä\n"
echo "ä"
ä
ä
ä
\udcc3\udca4: \u30b3\u30de\u30f3\u30c9\u304c\u898b\u3064\u304b\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093
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Define function in fish, use it with watch
I want to define a function, and call that function every n seconds. As an example:
function h
echo hello
end
Calling h works:
david@f5 ~> h
hello
But when using watch, it doesn't...
watch ...
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Why I can't add fish to /etc/shells?
I'm trying to use fish shell as my default shell on OSX. I have installed fish shell using brew and when I wanted to add it to /etc/shells I got this error:
tee: /etc/shells: No such file or ...
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Bash operator translation to fish
I've been trying to learn to use jq and for bash it uses the <<< operator which I cannot understand after reading the bash documentation, what is this operator for?
Besides that, I use the ...
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Yum not finding packages from added repo [CentOS 7]
I am currently trying to install fish on a new CentOS 7 machine.
Followed the very straightforward guide which was:
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/shells:fish:...
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Print and log stdout and stderr in fish shell
I am using the fish shell and try to log stdout and stderr into two separate files and printing them in the terminal at the same time (e.g., by piping each stream to tee).
In bash I would do (see ...
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fish-shell: shortcut “ctrl-L”
I´m a keen user of the fish-shell and I like it a lot.
One question though:
on the page https://fishshell.com/docs/2.1/index.html there is a
paragraph entitled "Command line editor".
It lists a lot ...
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Terminal prompts have a mysterious [I] in it
I have been using fish shell for a while, but only recently got into playing around with the oh-my-fish framework and theming the prompt.
I cannot figure out what this [I] character means! In most ...
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Group membership disappears with tmux
I have a weird problem in that my user (on Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia) is part of group docker, which I verify by starting a terminal:
$ groups
me adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare docker
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Temporarily Set $PATH for a fish Shell Session From a Script
I want to prepend a couple directories to the $PATH variable temporarily so that I can set up a temporary development environment that I don't really want to change what other fish sessions see.
So ...
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How to access bash aliases in fish
I am missing my bash aliases in fish, and don't want to manually convert all of them to fish functions.
How to get access to them all from within fish?
Bonus points if:
the solution supports an ...
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Processing local variable with regular expressions
I have some video files in source/ to encode and I want the output to be saved in the local directory, therefore removing source/ in the filename.
I accomplished this by using the following command ...
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How to group multiple conditions in an if statement in fish
As is, the code below is invalid, because the brackets can not be used like that. if we remove them, it runs fine, and outputs:
true
true
code:
#!/usr/bin/fish
if ( false ; and true ) ; or true
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shell command `tmux` throws `can't use /dev/tty` error
I just switched from using terminator to termite today. I also Installed Fish and oh my fish, Spent a couple hours configuring everything, but when I went to start a tmux session to get some work ...
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Is $argv in fish shell different from $@ in bash?
I was trying to learn and write some fish scripts, but I encountered a strange issue.
# a.fish
# this is a fish script
set temp (getopt -o abc -l ace,bad,correct -- $argv)
echo $temp
When I ran ...
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Why can't I list a directory with read permissions?
I created a directory d and a file f inside it. I then gave myself only read permissions on that directory. I understand this should mean I can list the files (e.g. here), but I can't.
will@wrmpb /p/...
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Using ~/.dircolors in fish shell
I just recently switched to the fish shell from bash and I am having trouble sourcing my dircolors template file to get custom colors to appear for certain file extensions.
In bash, I was sourcing a ...
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How to change the default shell in NixOS?
At the moment I need to set the fish shell to be my default shell on NixOS and there is no official documentation on how to do that declaratively (not by running chsh) in NixOS.
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Capture stdout and stderr as separate variables in fish shell
Is this even possible?
I'd like to run a command but capture its stdout and stderr as separate variables. Currently I'm using set -l var (cmd), which leaves stderr untouched. I can do set -l var (cmd ...
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How can one override bash Ctrl+C to be more fish-like
I find myself using bash more often than not on remote machines even though fish is my preferred shell. Fish has small, but nice feature that when you hit Ctrl+C something like this happens:
if ...
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debian 9 terminal cannot change to su
I installed debian stretch yesterday. I installed fish shell . I change the default shell to fish by the following
su chsh -s 'which fish'
Then again enter the this command
su chsh -s `which fish`
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How can I send stdout to multiple commands in fish shell?
Same question as How can I send stdout to multiple commands? but for fish shell.
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Start bash then autostart fish with terminator
I've been using terminator, and recently started using fish. When terminator starts (bash) I can use, for example, node just fine. If I then start fish I can still run node just fine.
I set ...
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Issues with scp if I use bashrc to open fish if present
Situation: Need to login to multiple remote servers with some of them having fish shell
Requirement: Default shell is bash. If I login to a server and fish is present, switch to fish shell, otherwise ...
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How does history work in fish shell?
I'm a bash user, starting a new job at a place where people use fish shell.
I'm looking at the history command which I often use in bash. When I use it in fish I get a long list of my history which ...
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Remap Ctrl+E to autocomplete file names in fish
I'm using Fish shell on Urxvt terminal.
I want to map Ctrl+E as auto-completion key, what is done by pressing Right arrow key by default.
I'm not sure if it's shell's or terminal's feature to do so, ...
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Fish Shell - function name conflicts with apt package in Ubuntu [closed]
I have created a fish function named proot but there is an Ubuntu package with the same name.
When I type 'proot' into my fish shell, I get
~> proot
The program 'proot' is currently not ...
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Ctrl Right and Ctrl Left doesn't move from a word to another in Fish Shell
When I use on Linux Mint my Fish Shell, using the Ctrl-← or Ctrl-→ keys isn't moving the cursor to the previous or next word. It switches between an I and an N instead:
I cannot do ...
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Looking for fish theme with powerline, full path and return and carriage return after the prompt line
I'm looking for a theme I noticed some time ago and that I can't find again, it was a theme on fish or zsh where the prompt line (user & path) had powerline theme, the full path was displayed and ...
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History expansion in fish
I want to run the previous command with part of it replaced. In bash, I can use the history expansion feature: ^x^y runs the previous command again, except with x replaced by y. I tried it in fish and ...
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Printing autocomplete info on current option in fish shell
When writing a command with a - option and pressing tab, a list of possible completions with short explanations of what the options do is displayed. Is there a way to make this list also contain the ...
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How to unmap keys in fish?
I want to unmap (unbind) certain keys such as Up, Down, Left, Right, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End specifically in the fish shell.
I guess I have to use the bind command in the .config/fish/fish....
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Quoting and concatenating a fish function argument
I keep destroying and provisioning VMs, so ssh frequently complains that I'm being NASTY. Mmmm...
Anyways, I wrote a fish function to banish the offending key on the line it tells me with sed:
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check a range with switch/case in fish shell
Is something like this possible with fish? i.e.
switch $var
case a-z
do something
case "*"
do something else
end
case "*"works fine, but case a-zdoesn't trigger.
I also tried case [ a-z ...
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Windows bash takes arrows as symbols via ssh and fish shell on server
I have a bit complicated question. I am using Windows 10 Anniversary Update with Bash for Ubuntu. I am connecting to server via ssh. This server uses fish shell. And when I press arrows it just prints ...
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Fish shell testing for existence of file in $PATH
I'm trying to test in a fish shell script for the existence of the figlet binary. Since I use Linux and OS X I cannot rely on the file being in the same location and need to resolve it dynamically. I'...
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Output pipe waits for EOF in fish [closed]
I'd like to take the csearch output and color it. It looks like so:
/home/bp/whatever.txt:1:foo
And this works:
csearch -n -- $term \
| env GREP_COLORS='mt=02;35' grep --color=always -P '^[^:]+:[^...
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Internal path not set in GVim when launched from gvim.desktop
shell: bash, fish
terminal: xfce4-terminal
other-applications: xfce4-whiskermenu, tmux
I'm trying to have GVim inherit the full path from bash and/or fish when launching from from xfce-whisker-menu....
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Why 'kill -l' gives different output in fish and bash
I was using fish-shell when reading about kill command.
The output of kill -l command for fish is
HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT IOT BUS FPE KILL USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM
....
When invoking same command ...
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find -exec not working in fish
While using fish as my shell, i'm trying to set permissions on a bunch of c source files in current dir with
find . -type f -name "*.c" -exec chmod 644 {} +;
I get an error
find: missing ...
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Gnome-terminal custom command and dynamic working directory
This is kind of a followup to another question.
I use a custom command in my gnome-terminal profile (/usr/bin/fish). When using Ubuntu 14.04 a Ctrl-Shift-N opened a new gnome-terminal window in the ...
