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Fish

User-friendly shell with autosuggestions, colors, and sane scripting

Shell & Terminal linuxmacoswindows Rust GPL-2.0

Description

Fish (Friendly Interactive SHell) is a command line shell focused on user-friendliness. It features powerful autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, sane scripting syntax (compared to Bash), and works out of the box with sensible defaults.

AI Summary

User-friendly interactive shell with autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, and sane defaults

Capabilities

  • + Provide inline autosuggestions based on history
  • + Syntax highlight commands as you type
  • + Offer sane, easy-to-learn scripting language
  • + Support tab completions with descriptions
  • + Work well out of the box without configuration

Use When

  • You want an interactive shell that works great out of the box
  • You prefer autosuggestions and syntax highlighting by default

Avoid When

  • x You need POSIX shell compatibility

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