Questions tagged [fish]
Fish is a unix shell with a clean design and a limited but powerful feature set.
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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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fish: bind ctrl+space to undo in terminal command line
abbr -a gc git commit
After expanding gc via pressing space, I want to undo via pressing ctrl+space in fish shell.
How do i do that?
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fish: cd to the most recently modified child directory
related to this post, cd to the most recently modified child directory
bash cd "$(\ls -1dt ./*/ | head -n 1)"
zsh cd ./*(/om[1])
changes to the most recently modified directory.
But there ...
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ytp-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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Keep cursor/prompt vertically centered in ZSH/FISH
I was wondering if there is an easy way to configure ZSH (I am using oh-my-zsh) and/or FISH (just started fiddling with this) to not keep the cursor/promt at the bottom of the terminal as soon an the ...
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Sharing fish configuration across computers
I'm trying to share configurations across my computers (macOS and WSL2). Most of my configurations (abbreviations, plugins configuration) are by default in fish_variables which is meant to be ...
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Fish 3.3.1 shell: how do I negate the results of a string match?
as above.
basically I want to implement something like
if not match then
do these things
else
do these other things
fi
Thanks
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How do I extract variables from a list in fish?
So, I recently downloaded a cli which shares a lot of commands similar to linux.
Like mega-login : login & mega-logout :logout
and I am too tired of writing mega every time I need to use the cli.
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XDG_DATA_DIRS env variable using two separator types in fish shell
After doing an OS upgrade (opensuse leap 15.2 -> 15.3), my XDG setup broke. Among other things, my XDG_DATA_DIR env var uses two different value separators: : and .
Current XDG_DATA_DIRS value:
/...
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Is there a way to validate a completion file?
I have tool that is able to create a completion file for bash, zsh and fish. I normally use zsh, but i cannot get this completion file to work on zsh. So as a test i installed fish and created the ...
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What's the correct format for MAKEFLAGS when using Fish shell?
To improve compile times, the Arch wiki states,
Users with multi-core/multi-processor systems can specify the number
of jobs to run simultaneously. This can be accomplished with the use
of nproc to ...
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fzf not using `$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND`
I'm trying to get fzf to use rg --files as its command for searching, but can't seem to get it to use the $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND environment variable, as described in the docs.
I use fish as my shell, ...
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Fish Shell Showing /usr/bin/git after every command. Any way to remove this?
Been trying to find where this is coming from and I can't seem to figure it out. I know that It's the location of my git install, but not much else. Is it echoing somewhere from some sort of fish ...
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Using Fish Shell, how can I export a variable from within a file?
We can export variables from the command line with set -x, but I'd like to know how to do this from within a file. The reason is that I'm organizing my $HOME directory according to the XDG convention, ...
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What does it mean to both append and prepend a value to a variable (in fish shell or in general)?
Per the fish shell documentation for the set command:
append: causes the values to be appended to the current set of values for the variable. This can be used with --prepend to both
append and ...
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Oh-my-zsh "take" command - Is there an equivalent in Fish?
Oh-my-zsh has the take command which creates a directory and enters into it in one step. Is there an equivalent command for the fish shell?
I do know that I can do it with mkdir newDir && cd ...
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Fish environment variables/$PATH in applications started from Desktop Environment?
I'm specifically trying to get NVM to work on Elementary OS with Fish and IntelliJ.
There is a fish script that works pretty well as long as I stay in the terminal. However, when I launch my IDE from ...
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Function tab-completion not matching that of wrapped command
I've got a function defined in my fish shell:
function cl --wraps=cd
cd $argv && ls -l --color=auto
end
According to man function, the --wraps option "causes the function to inherit ...
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fish - Maximum recursion depth reached with tab-complete
With my fish shell, I have defined the alias
alias black='command black -l 110'
When I type black in my shell and start to tab-complete, I get the error
complete: maximum recursion depth reached
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Setting Fish Shell as default shell, prevents me from accessing commands
I used the following to set my default shell
chsh -s `which fish`
Which works great, but many commands such as brew and npm no longer works. Previously, accessing fish shell from zsh shell still ...
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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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Fish Shell: Start up script issue
I am not a coder or a programmer, I just try to learn but I have some limitations...
I'd like to mount a webdav resource when I logging into the session (virtual console), however I'd like to check if ...
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Fish shell vi-mode is missing "repeat" command (dot/period/. key in Zsh)
I recently moved from Zsh to Fish, and I'm having a problem with vi-mode in Fish. There doesn't seem to be a "repeat" keybinding, like in Zsh's vi-mode (bound to the "dot" .). I ...
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MacOS/iTerm2/fish arrow keys stops working after terminating a process with ctrl+c
I am using iTerm2 on my mac pro, and using fish as my shell. Every time I have a process running and I break it by pressing ctrl+c, the arrow keys stops working after and starts emitting ^[[A etc.
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How do I add multiple fish functions in a single script?
I'm trying to shift to fish from zsh. As I've seen, load time of fish increases if I use alias. So I'd like to convert all of my alias into functions, but the thing is creating a function script for ...
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How to display stdout of command in `less` with as few keystrokes as possible?
I often find myself piping a command's output into less because less is far superior for studying the output than the normal terminal.
While I can always append | less to every command, I was ...
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How to enable auto logout in fish shell?
A quick google search says I could enable auto logout (for text consoles) by setting a TMOUT parameter. However, I discovered later that this would only work with the bash shell.
Is there a way I ...
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Fish - remove file before download
I run fish shell and it gives an exception when I try to remove a file which is not found. I have the following script:
#!/usr/bin/fish
set files "/tmp/*.xlsx"
rm -f "$files"
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fish - Run multiple abbreviations with another abbreviation
I have a few abbreviations that I want to run on one command.
Let's say given this config:
abbr command1 "echo 1"
abbr command2 "echo 2"
abbr command3 "echo 3"
I want ...
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Having an interactive shell experience but running everything through dash
So i'm starting to get addicted to POSIX standards and simplicity yet i hate not having autocomplete using the arrows to go through characters and i want a cool shell prompt.
so is there anyway that i ...
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How to create a keyboard shortcut for opening files after searching through fzf
I can launch a file after searching through fzf by doing xdg-open (fzf) (I'm using fish) or fzf | xargs xdg-open. But these do not work if I try to create a shortcut for opening a terminal and ...
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Fish completion script
I'm working on a completion script for a command, and I'm stuck. The docs and various websites I find don't fit what I need. The main command is pacstall and it has the flags: -I -S -R -C -U -V -L -Up ...
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How to preserve formatting in fish shell command substitution output stored in the var?
I'm already scratching my head for a while because of this:
> cat file
line1
line2
> set tst (cat file)
> echo "$tst"
line1 line2
> set tst "(cat file)"
> echo &...
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Environment variables in Fish
I need to use a program called Kpax, the "installation" process consist in this:
(for bash users, edit ~/.bashrc)
export KPAX_ROOT=/home/dritchie/kpax <- substitute the proper ...
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Difference between the shells [closed]
I've been using Linux Mint since March 2020, and I haven't used any shells other than the Bash shell.
So what exactly is the difference between the Bash shell and the other shells (Fish, Zsh, Ksh, ...
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Make any program "think" its output is a terminal (ie stop it from "knowing" its output is a pipe/file/substitution/etc) to keep ansi-color-codes etc [duplicate]
EDIT:
specifically what worked for me was using the python script in this answer
and I gave the tweaks I used to get it working for my autoloading functions in fishshell, and on ubuntu 20.04, in this ...
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How to make --exclude-glob work with this use case of lftp and fish shell?
I have a statement that looks like this:
set cmd 'set ssl:verify-certificate false;
open -u abc,def ftp.somewhere.com;
mirror --only-newer --exclude-glob "{.git|node_modules|wp-config.php}" \...
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xfce terminal ignores set default shell
I changed the default shell with
chsh -s `which fish`
but my terminal still launches with bash. If I run chsh again, it says chsh: Shell not changed. I'm using Manjaro x86_64 20.2.1 with XFCE (4.16). ...
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What is the purpose of (and possibly the convention of using) multiple locations for user configuration in fish shell
I have recently moved to fish from bash. I'm immediately in love with the out-of-the-box functionality, but I'm a little bit at a loss when it comes to configuring the shell.
I've read through the ...
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How to use hjkl to navigate menu select in fish shell
I can't seem to find any information on how to navigate tab completion or how to bind keys in tab completion in fish shell.
This is what I am trying to achieve but in fish shell rather than zsh. Fish-...
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How to change shell without the command line
Something broke my fish and I have no idea how to fix it so is there a way to change shell to zsh without using the command line
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Memory usage out-of-control with shell command, but not with shell script
[Linux Mint 20.1, 16GB RAM, 16GB swap]
I recently converted my system - root and backup partitions - to BTRFS. I've been experimenting with archiving some of root's snapshots to my backup drive, but ...
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urxvt writing over itself and leaving colored spaces
URXVT is writing over itself and leaving behind colored spaces... I feel like this is easier shown than described:
This started occurring overnight without making any changes, so I'm not sure where ...
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How to write a command to history in fish shell?
In the zsh shell, I can write something into the command line history like so:
#!/bin/zsh
cmd="cd /special/dir"
print -s $cmd" # save command in history for reuse
How may I do ...
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Ranger image preview not working in URXVT running Fish shell until I open an image in Feh
I recently started using the Fish shell, and after opening a new URXVT instance I cannot get image previews in Ranger until I open an image first (using feh, in my case). Once an image has been opened ...
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Error in terminal emulator: Alacritty
I installed Garuda Linux today. The default shell emulator is Alacritty and the default shell, fish. However, after the update to the system, its constantly giving a warning:
Config error: shell: data ...
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Is it possible to disable the & ampersand character in fish shell? (make escaping with \& unnecessary)
So it is possible to permanently disable the functionality of ?, making \? unnecessary, by enabling the qmark-noglob feature flag.
I would like to do the same thing for &, as I never use it for ...
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How to set environmental variables in Fish?
Guys I recently switched to fish from Bash and I've run into problems setting some specific variables for golang in fish.
In my bashrc I would set them using:
export PATH="$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/...
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Fish: The file is not executable by this user
I made fish function in ~/.config/fish/functions/confgit.fish:
function confgit
/home/john/Projects/confgit $argv
end
But when I run this function it just says:
fish: The file “/home/john/...
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xargs | Use input as command
I would have assumed that following examples work perfectly fine.
$ which -a python python3 pip | xargs -I {} {} --version
No '{}' such file or folder
$ which -a python python3 pip | xargs -I _ _ --...
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