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In bash, we can retrieve the current script's path by $0 variable, so if any script has a dependency resource which is under the same directory as the script directory, we can use it even when we'r...
Lozoya asked 10/12, 2015 at 7:44

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I started using Fish (and oh-my-fish) a couple of weeks ago and one of the things that I find somewhat visually hard is the default background color of the autocomplete options (see the purple back...
Vevina asked 22/3, 2017 at 15:3

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I've recently decided to give the fish shell a shot and also started using oh-my-fish. The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out how to change the color of directory listings when running a...
Fullmer asked 29/8, 2014 at 1:53

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On bash you can use set -e inside a script in order to exit on error: set -e cd unexisting-folder echo "this line will not be printed" But on fish shell set -e is used to erase variables: set F...
Tobacconist asked 9/11, 2013 at 12:38

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I am looking for the equivalent of source .bashrc for Fish.
Sprayberry asked 17/6, 2013 at 16:13

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How to check if a variable is a number in fish shell? Looking for a simple way of doing it.
Tarantella asked 13/10, 2018 at 23:12

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I'm translating a script from Z shell to Fish, and I've got this one part I can't figure out how to translate: for (( i=0; i < $COLUMNS; i++ )); do printf $1 done The only documentation for ...
Overlay asked 2/1, 2014 at 1:54

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I installed fish with homebrew on Mac OS Big Sur, Apple Silicon. Then I added /opt/homebrew/bin/fish to /etc/shells. When I now start fish from the default shell, it recognises all commands (like g...
Whitby asked 20/3, 2021 at 16:36

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I'm trying to open a directory in sublime Text 3. I can launch sublime from the command line using the subl command. The help text show the following: Sublime Text build 3059 Usage: subl [argum...
Atonsah asked 16/10, 2014 at 10:47

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I am currently trying out the fish shell instead of using bash. One type of notation I'm having trouble learning the fish-equivalent notation for is $(command), similar to how it is described in th...
Cicely asked 6/10, 2013 at 17:42

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I have stumbled on a problem with the fish shell (which is my favorite shell) when I am trying to use command substitution: gcc (pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0 cairo) -o drawing_widget drawin...
Scientism asked 24/1, 2015 at 18:16

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I'm aware that I can use time as time <some command> But this requires me to remember to type time before <some command> I'm wondering if it's possible create some sort of hook, so tha...
Slate asked 3/12, 2022 at 17:25

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In fish shell, I want to be able to expand a command substitution or variable as multiple arguments to another command, e.g.: Without substitution ls -l -h Should give the same result as: ls $(ech...
Cauldron asked 24/9, 2023 at 16:46

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This question has already been asked, and answered here: https://superuser.com/a/940041/293429 However, the provided solution: executing set -e PATH[<index-of-the-path-to-be-removed] only appli...
Afroasian asked 20/1, 2016 at 21:39

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I am trying to implement a feature from the following article: How to boost your vim productivity in the fish shell. The Author in the Article uses the following code to map Ctrl+Z in zsh to the ...
Implicatory asked 5/6, 2015 at 9:14

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I am running Ubuntu 13.10 and fish 2.1.0. I want to write myself a Python script to do some tasks from the command line. The script will require command line arguments. How can I write my script s...
Java asked 30/12, 2013 at 11:8

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Here is the equivalent bash script that I am trying to convert to fish: for j in *.md; do mv -v -- "$j" "${j%.md}.txt"; done Here is what I tried: for file in *.md mv -v -- "$file" "{{$file}%....
Hysterotomy asked 26/7, 2016 at 12:39

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I'm trying to get virtualenv to work with the fish shell. I have virtualenv installed and it works fine with bash and zsh. However, running the following command returns fish: Unknown command 'sour...
Wool asked 8/6, 2012 at 21:38

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In an attempt to unlock the screen, I have accidentally entered my password into a terminal running the fish shell. How can I remove it from the command history of fish again? The solution does n...
Randi asked 24/5, 2020 at 20:14

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I've defined a function hello in fishshell: function hello echo Hello end And save it: funcsave hello If I want to delete it, I can delete the file ~/.config/fish/functions/hello.fish. Is there ...
Sarchet asked 18/4, 2016 at 16:7

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I have multiple versions of PHP installed, and for my normal development I always use PHP 5.5.x installed via homebrew. In the fish shell which php & php --version => /usr/local/bin/php =...
Cathar asked 7/2, 2014 at 9:56

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What I want to do using bash: > if true; then echo y; else echo n; fi y > if false; then echo y; else echo n; fi n > if false || true; then echo y; else echo n; fi y Now trying with fis...
Liverish asked 27/7, 2013 at 16:35

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I've been using Cygwin for quite a while now. I now want to switch to fish from bash. Everyone is saying that you should use chsh -s /usr/bin/fish, but for some reason, chsh does not work for me. T...
Burweed asked 12/3, 2014 at 20:35

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I'm using the fish shell under MacOS X Capitan and after using rustup.rs I get the following message: Rust is installed now. Great! To get started you need Cargo's bin directory in your PATH envir...
Sangsanger asked 26/12, 2022 at 8:5

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I use fish shell and I just want to when I open the vscode it automatically selects the virtual environment that was activated in virtual fish. I want to have something like this: "python.inte...
Kalgan asked 2/10, 2022 at 19:12

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