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• A short tutorial on using fish shell.

  Follow this to install. Note that this tutorial assume that you are on Linux. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• Tools for 2025

  I've probably been using fish shell [0] for close to 10 years now. When I need POSIX compliance or if I need to run a one-off bash command, I just call bash. It's exceedingly rare. Browsing through the documentation for Oils, it seems to be organized in a way that's very confusing. When you open the fish shell website it was two clear buttons for Tutorial and Documentation. [0] https://fishshell.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• TIL: Ghostty — a new and quite promising terminal emulator

  I remember that Julia Evans, whose blog I follow, mentioned a few time that she uses Fish. Also, some days ago I came across this post about Fish rewrite to Rust from C++, which sounds like a cool thing to do. However, I tried it some time ago, and while pretty neat, I wasn't convinced to switch to it completely. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Easy development environments with Nix and Nix flakes!

  The default shell in the above flake adds Valkey, NodeJS 22, the PNPM package manager, and the fish shell to the environment. It also starts Valkey in the background through a shell hook, passing it a custom config (declared via Nix!) and runs fish so we're dropped in the fish shell instead of our login shell. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• A new shell for using modern Unix commands

  I’m testing a new shell called fish, and I’m enjoying some features that truly make it a friendly interactive shell. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Pytest Fish shell autocompletion

  Typing repetitive commands or copying and pasting test names can eat up valuable time. To help, I've created pytest.fish - a Fish shell plugin that simplifies your pytest workflow. It's lightweight, simple to set up, and makes testing more efficient. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Must-have apps and services in 2024

  iTerm + fish. I wrote a post explaining my environment settings. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• An Introduction to Nix for Ruby Developers

  # Launch the `fish` shell (see https://fishshell.com) Nix run `nixpkgs#fish` Martin@iMac ~/p/o/a/martin (ruby-on-nix)>. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• php: concurrency with processes. pt. 1: using pcntl_fork for fun and performance

  The output here shows that we are running two processes: the fish shell (an alternative to bash) and the ps command itself. We can also see the PIDs of both of those processes. If we want to see a list of all the processes running on our system, including everything from the operating system, we can run ps -e. There will be a lot of output. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• How to Manage Your Node.js Versions Using the Node Version Manager (NVM)

  For bash, zsh, and fish, this installer will automatically update your console startup script. If you wish to prevent modifications to your console startup script, see skipping Volta setup. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Day 5 - More or less...

  We're using bash as our terminal shell for now (it is standard in many distros) but it is not the only one out there. If you want to test out zsh, fish or oh-my-zsh, you will see that there are a few differences and the features are usually the main differentiator. Try that, poke around. Source: over 1 year ago

• Devuan Upgrade: 4 to 5 Daedalus

  Before actual update, confirm your shell is independent on python. It is important when you use fish:. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell

  > As for why I don't think that's their goal, just look at https://fishshell.com/ not one of the listed features requires them to drop POSIX compatibility entirely. “Sensible scripting” is right there. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager

  This is the default behaviour of fish[1], by the way! [1]: https://fishshell.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Is there any way to make fonts "thicker"?

  Last suggestion? Give fish a go. Its amazing. https://fishshell.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• I made a small program that makes it easier to run commands inside containers

  On the topic of alternatives I use https://fishshell.com/ and have the Docker Completions installed. Source: almost 2 years ago

• List of apps I use every day - Version 2023

  Fish: A very fast shell with various customization options to streamline daily commands. I discovered it through this post by @caarlos0, where he provides more details about performance and the differences between fish and zsh. Additionally, I use some CLI utilities like delta, exa, and ripgrep. Here's my dotfiles for fish. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Integrating Python's Virtualenv with Fish shell Without Overcomplicated Frameworks

  Despite these attractive attributes, many developers I've come across don't prefer Fish shell, primarily due to integration gaps with tools like Python's virtualenv. So, in this article, I'm offering a simple solution for automatic virtualenv activation for Fish shell, steering clear of resource-intensive frameworks like oh-my-fish that often slow down the shell. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Everything I Installed on My New Mac

  Since writing my wsl workflow post, I've switched from zsh to fish. It's a more modern shell that comes with autosuggestions, syntax highlighting and a lot more out of the box. It even has web-based configuration which makes it super easy to customize and preview your changes. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Top Productivity CLI Tools I Use on Linux

  Fish is a acronyn for friendly interactive shell. It is a smart and user friendly shell for Unix-like operating systems like Linux. There are a lot of features that make it stand out from other shells like bash. It has a lot of features like autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, tab completions and a lot more. You can read more about it in the documentation. I have been using it for a while now and I it configured... - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Good luck debugging this

  This is a weird way to say you want to sleep with the fishes. Source: almost 2 years ago