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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>fish shell</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="description" content="A smart and user-friendly command line shell"> <meta name="author" content="ridiculous_fish"> <link id="style" href="assets/css/fish_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">   <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload = function() { // Let clicking the logo swap to our fun style document.getElementById('fish_logo').addEventListener("click", (event) => { var style = document.getElementById('style'); if (style.href.endsWith('fish_style.css')) { style.href = style.href.replace('fish_style.css', 'fun.css'); } else { style.href = style.href.replace('fun.css', 'fish_style.css'); } }); }; </script> </head> <body class="gradient_body"> <div class="container-narrow"> <img id="fish_logo" class="logo" src="assets/img/Terminal_Logo2_CRT_Flat.png" alt="Logo of Fish"> <div class="jumbotron"> <h1> Finally, a command line shell for the 90s </h1> <p class="lead"> fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="promo_table"> <div class="promo_table_cell"> <h3>Works Out of the Box</h3> <div class="promo_image"> <a target="_blank" href="assets/img/screenshots/works_out_of_the_box.png"> <img alt="A git clone followed by the completions for 'git checkout --track origin/', showing the origin's remote branches" src="assets/img/screenshots/works_out_of_the_box.png"> </a> </div> fish will delight you with features like tab completions and syntax highlighting that just work. It will make you exclaim "Of course fish does that!". </div> <div class="promo_table_cell"> <h3>Sensible Scripting</h3> <div class="promo_image"> <a target="_blank" href="assets/img/screenshots/scripting.png"> <img alt="A demonstration of a switch/case tree that detects the OS" src="assets/img/screenshots/scripting.png"> </a> </div> fish is fully scriptable, and its syntax is simple, clean, and consistent. You'll never write <span class="mono">esac</span> again. </div> <div class="promo_table_cell"> <h3>Reads Your Mind</h3> <div class="promo_image"> <a target="_blank" href="assets/img/screenshots/autosuggestion.png"> <img alt="fish shows suggestions based on files, completions and your history. In this case it offers to turn 'ssh -' into 'ssh -l demo SomeLongHost@SomeLongDomainIAlwaysMisspell.com', and you can accept it with right arrow or control-F" src="assets/img/screenshots/autosuggestion.png"> </a> </div> fish suggests commands as you type based on history and completions, just like a web browser. Watch out, Netscape Navigator 4.0! </div> <div class="promo_table_cell promo_table_left"> <h3>Abbreviations</h3> <div class="promo_image"> <video controls src="assets/img/screenshots/abbr.webm" alt="A screencast showing the definition of two abbrevations. The first, 'abbr --add foo echo bar' turns 'foo' into 'echo bar', the second turns any run of at least two periods into a cd command for as many directories as periods up. You can find the full source in the interactive documentation, search for 'multicd'"> </div> Tired of writing many characters when few would do? Fish allows you to abbreviate! </div> <div class="promo_table_cell"> <h3>Glorious VGA Color</h3> <div class="promo_image"> <a target="_blank" href="assets/img/screenshots/colors.png"> <img alt="A colorful commandline, with syntax highlighting" src="assets/img/screenshots/colors.png"> </a> </div> fish supports 24 bit true color, the state of the art in terminal technology. Behold the monospaced rainbow. </div> <div class="promo_table_cell"> <h3>Web Based Configuration</h3> <div class="promo_image"> <a target="_blank" href="assets/img/screenshots/web_config.png"> <img alt="Fish's web config tool, on the prompt selection tab" src="assets/img/screenshots/web_config.png"> </a> </div> For those lucky few with a graphical computer, you can set your colors and view functions, variables, and history all from a web page. Or not, you can also stay in your comfy terminal and set them there. </div> </div> <hr> <h2>Teach me to fish</h2> <a href="docs/current/tutorial.html" class="btn btn-large tutorial-link">Tutorial</a> <a href="docs/current/index.html" class="btn btn-large docs-link">Documentation</a> <a href="docs/current/faq.html" class="btn btn-large faq-link">FAQ</a> <a href="blog/index.html" class="btn btn-large blog-link">Blog</a>   <hr> <h2>Go fish</h2>  <input class="tabselector" name="tabselector" type="radio" id="tab1"> <input class="tabselector" name="tabselector" type="radio" id="tab2"> <input class="tabselector" name="tabselector" type="radio" id="tab3"> <input class="tabselector" name="tabselector" type="radio" id="tab4"> <input class="tabselector" name="tabselector" type="radio" id="tab5" checked> <ul id="platform_tabs" class="nav nav-tabs"> <li><label for="tab1" class="tab1">macOS</label></li> <li><label for="tab2" class="tab2">Linux</label></li> <li><label for="tab3" class="tab3">BSD</label></li> <li><label for="tab4" class="tab4">Windows</label></li> <li><label for="tab5" class="tab5">Sources</label></li> </ul> <div class="tab-content download_tabs over-pos"> <div class="download_tab block_links tab-pane active" id="get_fish_osx"> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://brew.sh">Homebrew</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://brew.sh"> <img src="assets/img/brew_icon.png" alt="Brew Icon"> </a> </p> <p> <span class="mono">brew install fish</span> </p> </div> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://www.macports.org">MacPorts</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://www.macports.org"> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/MacPorts.png" alt="MacPorts Icon"> </a> </p> <p> <span class="mono">sudo port install fish</span> </p> </div> <br> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/4.0b1/fish-4.0b1.pkg">Installer</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/4.0b1/fish-4.0b1.pkg"> <img src="assets/img/package_icon.png" alt="Package Icon"> </a> </p> <p> <small> 10.9+, Intel or Apple silicon<br> Installs to <span class="mono">/usr/local/</span> </small> </p> </div> <div class=""> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/4.0b1/fish-4.0b1.app.zip">App</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/4.0b1/fish-4.0b1.app.zip"> <img src="assets/img/Terminal_Logo_LCD_Small.png" alt="Terminal logo"> </a> </p> <p> <small> 10.9+, Intel or Apple silicon <br> <a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('app_explanation').style.display = 'block'; return false;"> No installation required </a> </small> </p> <div id="app_explanation" class="arrow_box" onclick="document.getElementById('app_explanation').style.display = 'none'; return false;"> fish.app bundles the fish shell with an AppleScript that launches it in Terminal. <br> Nothing is installed. </div> </div> </div> <div class="download_tab linux_tabs tab-pane" id="get_fish_linux"> <div> <p> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/ubu_icon.png" alt="Ubuntu"> </p> <p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/~fish-shell/+archive/ubuntu/release-3">Subscribe</a> or <a href="https://launchpad.net/~fish-shell/+archive/ubuntu/release-3/+packages">Download</a> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/deb_icon.png" alt="Debian"> </p> <p> <a href="https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=shells%3Afish%3Arelease%3A3&package=fish"> Subscribe or Download </a> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/fed_icon.png" alt="Fedora"> </p> <p> <a href="https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/fish/fish/">Packages</a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">dnf install fish</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img src="assets/img/opensuse.svg" alt="openSUSE"> </p> <p> <a href="https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=shells%3Afish%3Arelease%3A3&package=fish"> Subscribe or Download </a> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img class="light" src="assets/img/centos-logo-light-vertical.svg" alt="CentOS"> <img class="dark" src="assets/img/centos-logo-dark-vertical.svg" alt="CentOS"> </p> <p> <a href="https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=shells%3Afish%3Arelease%3A3&package=fish"> Subscribe or Download </a> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img src="assets/img/arch.svg" alt="Arch Linux"> </p> <p> <a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/fish/">Packages</a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">pacman -S fish</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/gentoo_icon.png" alt="Gentoo"> </p> <p> <a href="https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-shells/fish">Packages</a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">emerge fish</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/void_icon.png" alt="Void"> </p> <p> <a href="https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/fish-shell">Packages</a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">xbps-install fish-shell</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/nixos_icon.svg" alt="NixOS"> </p> <p> <a href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/shells/fish/default.nix">Packages</a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">nix-env -i fish</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/guix_icon.svg" alt="GNU Guix"> </p> <p> <a href="https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/fish/">Packages</a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">guix package -i fish</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img src="assets/img/solus_icon.svg" alt="Solus Project"> </p> <p> <a href="https://dev.getsol.us/source/fish/">Packages</a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">eopkg install fish</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <p> <img src="assets/img/brew_icon.png" alt="Brew Icon"> </p> <p> <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/f/fish.rb">Homebrew</a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">brew install fish</span> </small> </p> </div> </div> <div class="download_tab tab-pane" id="get_fish_bsd"> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://www.freshports.org/shells/fish/">FreeBSD</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://www.freshports.org/shells/fish/"> <img src="assets/img/freebsd_icon.png" alt="FreeBSD"> </a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">pkg install fish</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://netbsd.org">NetBSD</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://netbsd.org"> <img src="assets/img/netbsd_icon.png" alt="NetBSD"> </a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">pkgin install fish</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://openbsd.org"> <img src="assets/img/openbsd_icon.png" alt=""> </a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">pkg_add fish</span> </small> </p> </div> </div> <div class="download_tab tab-pane" id="get_fish_windows"> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://cygwin.com"> <img src="assets/img/cyg_icon.png" alt="Cygwin"> </a> </p> <p> fish is available in <b>setup</b>,<br>in the Shells category. </p> </div> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10">Windows Subsystem for Linux</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10"> <img class="logofix" src="assets/img/win_icon.png" alt="Windows"> </a> </p> <p> Use packages for <a href="#get_fish_linux" onclick="$('#platform_tabs a[href=#get_fish_linux]').tab('show'); return false;">your<br>installed Linux distribution</a> </p> </div> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://msys2.github.io/">MSYS2</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://msys2.github.io/"> <img src="assets/img/msys2_icon.png" alt="MSYS2"> </a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">pacman -S fish</span> </small> </p> </div> </div> <div class="download_tab block_links tab-pane" id="get_fish_source"> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/4.0b1/fish-4.0b1.tar.xz">fish-4.0b1.tar.xz</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/4.0b1/fish-4.0b1.tar.xz"> <img src="assets/img/tarball_icon.png" alt="Tarball Icon"> </a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">cmake .; make; sudo make install</span> </small> </p> <p class="app-filesize"> <small>File size: 6.2 MB</small> </p> <p> <small> SHA256: <span class="mono app-sha256">534334e10f85722214e9daff82a57cc3501235523f16f8f131c2344e4ec98da7</span> </small> </p> </div> <div> <h3> <a class="tab_link" href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/">Git master</a> </h3> <p> <a class="tab_link" href="https://git-scm.com/"> <img src="assets/img/git_icon.png" alt="Git"> </a> </p> <p> <small> <span class="mono">git clone https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell.git<br> cd fish-shell; cmake .; make; sudo make install </span> <br> (Installation from the bleeding edge, for developers and advanced users.) </small> </p> </div> </div> </div> <hr> <h2>Release History</h2> <p> <a href="docs/current/relnotes.html" class="release-notes-title"><b>Release Notes</b></a> </p> <ul class="releases-list"> <li> 4.0b1, released December 17, 2024 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/4.0b1/fish-4.0b1.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.7.1, released March 19, 2024 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.7.1/fish-3.7.1.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.7.0, released January 1, 2024 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.7.0/fish-3.7.0.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.6.4, released December 5, 2023 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.6.4/fish-3.6.4.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.6.3, released December 4, 2023 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.6.3/fish-3.6.3.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.6.2, released December 4, 2023 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.6.2/fish-3.6.2.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.6.1, released March 25, 2023 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.6.1/fish-3.6.1.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.6.0, released January 7, 2023 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.6.0/fish-3.6.0.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.5.1, released July 20, 2022 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.5.1/fish-3.5.1.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.5.0, released June 16, 2022 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.5.0/fish-3.5.0.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.4.1, released March 25, 2022 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.4.1/fish-3.4.1.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.4.0, released March 12, 2022 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.4.0/fish-3.4.0.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.3.1, released July 6, 2021 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.3.1/fish-3.3.1.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.3.0, released June 28, 2021 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.3.0/fish-3.3.0.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.2.2, released April 7, 2021 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.2.2/fish-3.2.2.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.2.1, released March 18, 2021 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.2.1/fish-3.2.1.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.2.0, released March 1, 2021 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.2.0/fish-3.2.0.tar.xz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.1.2, released April 29, 2020 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.1.2/fish-3.1.2.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.1.1, released April 27, 2020 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.1.1/fish-3.1.1.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.1.0, released February 12, 2020 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.1.0/fish-3.1.0.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.0.2, released February 19, 2019 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.0.2/fish-3.0.2.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.0.1, released February 11, 2019 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.0.1/fish-3.0.1.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 3.0.0, released December 28, 2018 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/3.0.0/fish-3.0.0.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 2.7.1, released December 22, 2017 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/2.7.1/fish-2.7.1.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 2.7.0, released November 23, 2017 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/2.7.0/fish-2.7.0.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> <li> 2.6.0, released June 3, 2017 <small>(<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/download/2.6.0/fish-2.6.0.tar.gz">tarball</a>) </small> </li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Development</h2> fish development is <a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell">hosted on GitHub</a>. 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