For an overview of fish’s scripting language, see The Fish Language. If it would be useful in a script file, it’s here. For information on using fish interactively, see Interactive use. If it’s about …

Fish includes basic built-in debugging facilities that allow you to stop execution of a script at an arbitrary point. When this happens you are presented with an interactive prompt where you …

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family. Works Out of the Box fish will delight you with features like tab completions and syntax …

Why fish?¶ Fish is a fully-equipped command line shell (like bash or zsh) that is smart and user-friendly. Fish supports powerful features like syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, and tab …

fish_config to easily change fish’s configuration, like the prompt or colorscheme. random to generate random numbers or pick from a list. Known functions¶ Known functions are a …

For a complete description of the various switches accepted by the complete command, see the documentation for the complete builtin, or write complete--help inside the fish shell. To provide …

Fish for bash users¶ This is to give you a quick overview if you come from bash (or to a lesser extent other shells like zsh or ksh) and want to know how fish differs. Fish is intentionally not …

This command makes it easy for fish scripts and functions to handle arguments. You pass arguments that define the known options, followed by a literal -- , then the arguments to be …

Debugging fish scripts¶ Fish includes a built in debugging facility. The debugger allows you to stop execution of a script at an arbitrary point. When this happens you are presented with an …

Variables in fish are lists, multiple values are allowed. One or more variable INDEX can be specified including ranges (not for all options.) If no VALUE is given, the variable will be set to …