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Fish Shell

21 points by RyanShook 9mo ago

gnabgib 9mo ago
Frequently featured, related /w discussion: 4.0 release (312 points, 11 months ago, 106 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194024 Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (906 points, 2024, 201 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535217 Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% (201 points, 2024, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002291 Fish shell 3.7.0 released, the last release branch before the full Rust rewrite (128 points, 2024, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833609 Fish – Update on the Rust port (335 points, 2023, 156 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423908 Fish – A friendly interactive shell (252 points, 2023, 162 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37272611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37272611 Rewrite it in Rust (375 points, 2023, 464 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588340 Fish 3.6 (186 points, 2023, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34298157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34298157 Fish Shell 3.5 (160 points, 2022, 71 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31768405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31768405 Fish 3.4 (194 points, 2022, 90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734072 + (131 points, 2022, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660587 The fish shell is amazing (447 points, 2021, 290 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29341390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29341390
- timeon 9mo ago
  > Rewrite it in Rust (375 points, 2023, 464 comments) My favorite.
Curiositry 9mo ago
I've been using Fish as my default shell for over a year now, and it's so pleasant. I still write scripts and more complicated pipelines in Bash, which has made the switch easier.
RyanShook 9mo ago
Found Fish while looking for the ability to edit commands in a more text-editor style since I frequently need to edit LLM prompts.
jijijijij 9mo ago
For me fish got three things I can't live without anymore: 1. Sane defaults. I just 'dnf/apt install fish' and be done with it. It's not a configuration mess, I don't need to manage dot files. You actually never have to touch config files. Things like aliases and functions can be saved from CLI. For the most part it works like bash. 2. Alt+H to open the manpage for command under the cursor, without messing with the command line. Best. Thing. Ever!!! 3. Extensive tab completions, which provide descriptions. Most of the time I don't have to open manpages and just do 'cmd -[TAB]'. History access is also much better. Alt+Up/Down lets you inject tokenized history, like last command's arguments. The only thing I frequently miss from bash is '<<<' and 'sudo !!'. The latter is a matter of habit, since fish provides Alt+S to toggle sudo prefixing. I do most scripting in bash, but only because it's idiotic fun to mess with the arcane like that every once in a while. Did you know you can manage TCP I/O in pure bash, via /dev/tcp/$host/$port? Bash is soo stupid and dangerous, impossible to remember or understand the next day, but great fun.

21 points by RyanShook 9mo ago

Frequently featured, related /w discussion: 4.0 release (312 points, 11 months ago, 106 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194024 Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (906 points, 2024, 201 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535217 Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% (201 points, 2024, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002291 Fish shell 3.7.0 released, the last release branch before the full Rust rewrite (128 points, 2024, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833609 Fish – Update on the Rust port (335 points, 2023, 156 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423908 Fish – A friendly interactive shell (252 points, 2023, 162 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37272611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37272611 Rewrite it in Rust (375 points, 2023, 464 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588340 Fish 3.6 (186 points, 2023, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34298157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34298157 Fish Shell 3.5 (160 points, 2022, 71 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31768405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31768405 Fish 3.4 (194 points, 2022, 90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734072 + (131 points, 2022, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660587 The fish shell is amazing (447 points, 2021, 290 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29341390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29341390

timeon 9mo ago
> Rewrite it in Rust (375 points, 2023, 464 comments) My favorite.

Curiositry 9mo ago

I've been using Fish as my default shell for over a year now, and it's so pleasant. I still write scripts and more complicated pipelines in Bash, which has made the switch easier.

RyanShook 9mo ago

Found Fish while looking for the ability to edit commands in a more text-editor style since I frequently need to edit LLM prompts.

jijijijij 9mo ago

For me fish got three things I can't live without anymore: 1. Sane defaults. I just 'dnf/apt install fish' and be done with it. It's not a configuration mess, I don't need to manage dot files. You actually never have to touch config files. Things like aliases and functions can be saved from CLI. For the most part it works like bash. 2. Alt+H to open the manpage for command under the cursor, without messing with the command line. Best. Thing. Ever!!! 3. Extensive tab completions, which provide descriptions. Most of the time I don't have to open manpages and just do 'cmd -[TAB]'. History access is also much better. Alt+Up/Down lets you inject tokenized history, like last command's arguments. The only thing I frequently miss from bash is '<<<' and 'sudo !!'. The latter is a matter of habit, since fish provides Alt+S to toggle sudo prefixing. I do most scripting in bash, but only because it's idiotic fun to mess with the arcane like that every once in a while. Did you know you can manage TCP I/O in pure bash, via /dev/tcp/$host/$port? Bash is soo stupid and dangerous, impossible to remember or understand the next day, but great fun.