fish
The friendly interactive shell.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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Fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. The new fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family. With autosuggestions, VGA color, man-page completions, web configuration, and threading.
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. The new fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family. With autosuggestions, VGA color, man-page completions, web configuration, and threading.
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Mac: no binary available, source should build on all posix-like oses though (including mac, in theory)
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- bash
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about fish, and it has gotten 77 likes
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.7
- 22 alternatives listed
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View allfish was added to AlternativeTo by 6432575487 on Oct 15, 2010 and this page was last updated Nov 18, 2020. fish is sometimes referred to as fish-shell, fish shell.
Recent user activities on fish
- drliu1202 added fish as alternative(s) to Zsh Autosuggestionsabout 2 months ago
drliu1202 liked fish
about 2 months ago
Huge fan of this program, very intuitive right out of the box and so pleasant to work with.
Custom functions are very easy to program once you get the hang of it, and all around the design decisions were well thought out and sensible.
Downright painful when I have to back to using bash.
Much more usable than the standard bash garbage. The only problems I've had are with people assuming that everyone uses bash and then things don't work. You can't paste command line stuff from Ubuntu forums, phone remote control apps don't work because they assume bash, etc.
It's very user friendly and has great default settings, however it's really cumbersome that it's not compliant with bash in some cases :(
The many helpful features make using the command line much easier.