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Fish is a unix shell with a clean design and a limited but powerful feature set.

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Completion for gradle not applying

I'm trying to understand why the gradle completion isn't applying. Since gw seems to be a keyword for the completion, I created an alias: alias gw='./gradlew' (My project uses gradle wrapper. I don'...
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Execute a command once per line of piped input?

I want to run a java command once for every match of ls | grep pattern -. In this case, I think I could do find pattern -exec java MyProg '{}' \; but I'm curious about the general case - is there an ...
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fish: sudo: !!: command not found

I have fish installed in my Linux Mint DE. I really like how fish makes things easier and it looks so pretty although I haven't find a correct answer about why I can't execute: sudo: !!: command not ...
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git autocompletions in Fish: how can I disable them or speed them up?

I'm running Fish shell (3.6.0) on Ubuntu. Let's say that I'm trying to run git add foo/bar.txt . I type: git add foo and then I press tab . Now the shell freezes up for a few seconds. Even pressing ...
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where a variable inherit from, Fishshell

i'm trying to set an environment variable EDITOR and change it from default which is /usr/bin/nano but i can't use set -Ux due to this behavior fish FAQ How to find out which setting fish inherits ...
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How can I start tmux automatically in fish shell while connecting to remote server via ssh

I switched from bash to fish shell. I liked it and decided to use it on my servers also. How can I start tmux automatically on ssh connection? I followed this instruction for bash but fish shell is ...
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Fish shell can't change directory over a Webdav resource through Rclone

Fish can't cd into a folder on a Webdav remote directory through Rclone: Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell Type `help` for instructions on how to use fish drive ) ls Documents/ Music/ ...
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fish shell alias only in specific directory

I am using fish and am working on a project with a script that's frequently invoked for build tasks called x.py. I'd like to create an alias that maps x to ./x.py. However, I only want this to apply ...
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WARNING: Running setxkbmap against an XWayland server

I'm using Fedora 37, tilix terminal emulator with fish shell. Whenever I open a terminal, I get the warning WARNING: Running setxkbmap against an XWayland server How come? How to avoid it?
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kill %1 equivalent in fish

In bash, if I run kill %1, it kills a backgrounded command in the current shell (the most recent one, I believe). Is there an equivalent of this in fish? I haven't been able to find it online in a bit ...
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FISH: failed to execute process...variable exceeds the OS argument length limit

I keep getting an error when I cd to my project root directory that is on github: > cd ~/go/src/github.com/mygithub/myapp The below message auto pops up because I am using tide prompt which links ...
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Troubleshooting Oh-My-Fish configuration making fish really slow

Without changing the configuration my fish shell started to be really slow, like between 1 and 5 seconds to a simple ls command. Note that the slow behaviour started suddenly. I have a local install ...
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Is it possible to disable the & ampersand character in fish shell? (make escaping with \& unnecessary)

So it is possible to permanently disable the functionality of ?, making \? unnecessary, by enabling the qmark-noglob feature flag. I would like to do the same thing for &, as I never use it for ...
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direnv and environment variables

I'm trying to get autoactivation of conda/mamba environments working using direnv but I'm running across a problem that seems to be due to my lack of understanding of how bash scripts work with ...
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Error in fish script turns on bracketed paste mode for ssh session?

When using a small fish function I’ve cobbled together (not a developer here, so please be gentle … 😌) for accessing a number of regularly needed ssh hosts, I’m seeing a strange effect: The bracket ...
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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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Fish equivalent of Bash / readline's Ctrl-O "operate-and-get-next"

Readline and therefore Bash have a very useful command called operate-and-get-next, bound by default to Ctrl-O, that executes the current line, after selecting it from the history, and advances the ...
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Copy files with different extensions to different basename with same extensions

I have 3 files Original.js Original.vue Original.css How can I easily copy them to Copy.js Copy.vue Copy.css Until now, i always just copied one by one, but if I could use something like copy ...
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Trying to change "non command" color in kitty terminal (ver. 0.21.2) using the fish (ver. 3.3.1) shell with the oh-my-fish theme slacker

I've been trying to change the color of non-command such as the picture below (the uncompleated 'help') link to the theme im using in omf: https://github.com/maqboolkhan/omf-theme-slacker my kitty....
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Unable to run git commands before shutdown

I would like to use systemd to accomplish this if possible. This is what I have done so far. Wrote a script in fish that will stage, commit and push files to a repository. Script made executable with ...
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Where is the default fish completion style defined or how do I style the fish completion options listing?

I'm using complete -c cl -o editz -f -xa '(cl -autocomplete 15 | sed "s/:/\\t/" | sed -r "s/^(.{60}).*/\1/")' to dynamically feed the latest 15 entires in a log program to fish for ...
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How to run a command n times in the fish shell?

The fish documentation gives the following way to run a for loop. for i in 1 2 3 4 5; echo $i end Let us say I want to run a command 1000 times, How can I do it?
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My fish prompt gets messed up when I add more set_color

I've been trying to make a custom fish prompt, but there's one problem that I can't seem to figure out how to fix. I got this to work, but it's not exactly what I want, as I want the ash@cat-box to be ...
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psub creates temp file as 'root' when fish is running under different user

Running the following from within a Docker container: su postgres -s /usr/bin/fish -c " echo 123 > /tmp/mypass stat /tmp/mypass stat $(echo 123 | psub) " Output of echo: File:...
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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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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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'fish_config browse' opens balena etcher instead of the default web browser

When I type fish_config browse in fish to configure it, it opens Balena etcher and not the web browser. I am on Pop!_OS 22.04 lts and migrated from bash.
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How to make zsh completion show the first guess on the same line (like fish's)?

In Fish when you start typing, autocompletion automatically shows the first autocompleted guess on the line itself. In zsh you have to hit tab, and it shows the autocompletion below. Is there anyway ...
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Complete a positional argument only once

I'm trying to write a completion for a command (call it gs) that takes an SSH hostname as its first argument, and an arbitrary string as the second argument. I've stolen this from the default SSH ...
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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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Fish completion that depends on other flags

I have a command, that can connect to remote machines and so the completion should be based on which machine the user provided. That means that if the user pass -D DEVICE_ID I want the completion to ...
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What does it mean to both append and prepend a value to a variable (in fish shell or in general)?

Per the fish shell documentation for the set command: append: causes the values to be appended to the current set of values for the variable. This can be used with --prepend to both append and ...
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yt-dlp with external downloader has black frames

I have the following fish shell script for downloading a slice of a video using yt-dlp and ffmpeg function yt-dlp-trim -d "Download a slice of a video with yt-dlp" if test (count $argv) ...
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Fish shell - what's wrong with this syntax?

I have a bash script which cats a heredoc string, and I'm running it inside a fish shell and then piping it to a source call, like so: ~/foo/baz: 1 #!/usr/bin/env bash 2 3 cat << EOS 4 ...
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Fish shell - syntax for creating a switch statement which checks against an array of values

I'm studying the RBENV codebase, and I see that on line 116 of the rbenv-init file, a function is created which contains a switch statement. My hypothesis is that we check whether the value of the ...
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Command line history in the fish shell suffering from short term memory issues

Over the last few months, I've been trying out the fish shell as my interactive shell. One issue that somewhat irritates me is that the shell occasionally forgets recent commands from its command ...
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Fish shell: How to disable help message?

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 ...
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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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Exit 'history' in fish

I recently switched from bash to fish. I like it, but I don't know how to exit, when I enter history. How do I do that?
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Use Git Version of mv/rm etc When in Repository

Git has its own versions of commands such as mv and rm that we really ought to use when doing these operations inside repositories. However, I'm sure I'm not the only person who often forgets to do ...
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Fish Completions - How to prevent file completions?

I am trying to write some completions for an in-house tool. We'll call it thetool. Lots of the commands to thetool do not take a 'file' as an argument. I thought that --no-files and/or --exclusive ...
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When pressing tab, how can I make fish complete to directory/ instead of directory/prefix?

I'm using fish shell. Let's say that I have a directory named books, containing files title-1, title-2 and title-3: $ tree books books/ ├── title-1 ├── title-2 └── title-3 0 directories, 3 files If ...
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Fish shell reports "math: Error: Missing operator" on tab completion

I noticed the error this morning, but I don't think I have changed anything last night, so I am very confused right now. Perhaps I updated some utilities on my system and it somehow broke the back ...
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fish shell: universal variables and alias not shared between "contexts"

I use fish shell mainly from Rider IDE and iTerm2. I've noticed that every task that implies saving something for future sessions will not operate transparently between the two aforementioned contexts....
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How to switch language in fish shell?

I tried to switch languages in fish (eg. French as shell supports it) using sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales, but nothing changed. Exporting LANG variable doing set --global --export LANG fr_FR.UTF-8 and ...
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Share environment variables between bash and fish

bash and fish scripts are not compatible, but I would like to have a file that defines some some environment variables to be initialized by both bash and fish. My proposed solution is defining a ~/....
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Fish EDITOR environment variable does not seem to work

I recently started using the Fish shell. echo $EDITOR returns vim But yet, when using programs that need to launch an editor and look for it in the EDITOR environment variable they don't seem to find ...
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Get output of a command that uses curses

If I try to get the output (stdout) of a python program into a variable I do this: set zpath (python something.py "$argv") But if the program spawns a curses interface, it won't show. The ...
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fish shell: why does `file `which command`` work in zsh and bash, but not fish?

Before switching to fish shell, I frequently used various commands in zsh with which some_command. An example might be: $ file `which zsh` /opt/local/bin/zsh: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64 /bin/zsh: ...
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New Fish-Shell Aliases are ignored

as explained in https://stackoverflow.com/a/2763014/2891692 i created for days many alias in my config file ~/.config/fish/config.fish and it works. every new alias i add today don't work. Example of ...

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