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Fish is a user-friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Rust
3.9 / 5 Avg rating (8)
102likes
5comments

Features

Suggest and vote on features
  1.  Sane defaults
  2.  Autocompletion
  3.  Color coding
  4.  Colored Text
  5.  Syntax Highlighting
  6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  7.  No registration required
  8.  Works Offline
  9.  Command line interface
  10.  Ad-free
  11.  Interpreter

 Tags

  • unix
  • bash
  • shell-interface
  • tty

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  • OpenSourceSoftware added fish as alternative to es
    15 days ago
  • OpenSourceSoftware added fish as alternative to arsh
    15 days ago
  • cybermale and haloscythe liked fish
    28 days ago
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    OpenSourceSoftware added fish as alternative to LibTerm
    about 1 month ago
  • jblackman199 liked fish
    about 1 month ago
  • NuncioBitis rated fish  
    about 1 month ago
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    POX added fish as alternative to Elk Shell
    about 2 months ago
  • Raphty and tamoi liked fish
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fish information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9
  • Alternatives

    31 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  29,567 Stars
  •  2,055 Forks
  •  456 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 18, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about fish, and it has gotten 102 likes

fish was added to AlternativeTo by 6432575487 on Oct 15, 2010 and this page was last updated Jan 3, 2025. fish is sometimes referred to as fish-shell, fish shell.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Seth
Apr 29, 2016
3

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.

Baianor
Jan 4, 2025
0

Very good. I've been using for over a year now and had a pretty good experience

yhnavein
Jun 11, 2020
2

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 :(

Buster_Blue
May 4, 2017
0

The many helpful features make using the command line much easier.

endolith
Sep 22, 2015
1

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.

What is fish?

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.

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