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|Name=fish
 
|Name=fish
 
|Short description=User-friendly interactive shell
 
|Short description=User-friendly interactive shell
|Full description='fish' (friendly interactive shell) is a shell focused on interactive use, discoverability, and friendliness. fish has very user-friendly and powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of every completion, completion of strings with wildcards, and many completions for specific commands. It also has extensive and discoverable help. A special help command gives access to all the fish documentation in your Web browser. Other features include smart terminal handling based on terminfo, an easy to search, no duplicates history, and syntax highlighting.
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|Full description='''fish (''friendly interactive shell'') is a shell focused on interactive use, discoverability, and friendliness.'''
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fish has very user-friendly and powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of every completion, completion of strings with wildcards, and many completions for specific commands. It also has extensive and discoverable help. A special help command gives access to all the fish documentation in your Web browser. Other features include smart terminal handling based on terminfo, an easy to search, no duplicates history, and syntax highlighting.
 
|Homepage URL=http://fishshell.com
 
|Homepage URL=http://fishshell.com
 
|User level=intermediate
 
|User level=intermediate
 
|VCS checkout command=git clone https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell.git
 
|VCS checkout command=git clone https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell.git
 
|Computer languages=C++, C, Python
 
|Computer languages=C++, C, Python
|Documentation note=User documentation
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|Documentation note=* User documentation:
[http://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html Documentation]
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** [http://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html Documentation]
[http://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html Tutorial]
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** [http://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html Tutorial]
[http://fishshell.com/docs/current/faq.html FAQ]
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** [http://fishshell.com/docs/current/faq.html FAQ]
  
Developer documentation
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* Developer documentation:
[http://fishshell.com/docs/current/design.html Design philosophy]
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** [http://fishshell.com/docs/current/design.html Design philosophy]
[https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/#building Building notes]
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** [https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/#building Building notes]
[https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/#runtime-dependencies Runtime dependencies]
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** [https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/#runtime-dependencies Runtime dependencies]
|Related projects=Bash,Zsh
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|Related projects=Bash, Zsh
|Keywords=shell,syntax highlighting,interactive,user-friendly,tab completion,smart terminal
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|Keywords=shell, syntax highlighting
 
|Version identifier=2.1.0
 
|Version identifier=2.1.0
|Version date=2013/10/28
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|Version date=2014/09/26
 
|Version status=stable
 
|Version status=stable
 
|Version download=https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/archive/2.1.1.tar.gz
 
|Version download=https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/archive/2.1.1.tar.gz

Revision as of 14:55, 31 October 2014


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fish

http://fishshell.com
User-friendly interactive shell

fish (friendly interactive shell) is a shell focused on interactive use, discoverability, and friendliness.

fish has very user-friendly and powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of every completion, completion of strings with wildcards, and many completions for specific commands. It also has extensive and discoverable help. A special help command gives access to all the fish documentation in your Web browser. Other features include smart terminal handling based on terminfo, an easy to search, no duplicates history, and syntax highlighting.





Licensing

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License

GPLv2

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Genium

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20 March 2020

License

X11

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Deborah Nicholson

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25 January 2008

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LGPL

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Deborah Nicholson

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25 January 2008




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
ridiculousfish Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Ruby (Ref)https://rubygems.org/gems/fish
Python (Ref)https://pypi.org/project/fish
Debian (Ref)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fish
SupportMailing Listhttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
DeveloperBug Trackinghttps://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell
IssuesBug Trackinghttp://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Required to buildg++ / clang
Weak prerequisitegettext
Required to buildautoconf
Weak prerequisiteDoxygen
Required to buildcurses / ncurses




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"Issues" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.


















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