What's so great about the Fish Shell?... I'll tell you...

In this video I go over some of the best features of the Fish Shell (IMO).
Features like the stellar autocompletion, abbreviations, functions, and customizations.
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[@Z1g0l]

2:12 oh man, I thought I'm alone in this. Love your channel!

[@gjenkinsedu]

I just discovered your channel and I really like your content. You seem to cover a lot of things I have been researching to do on my channel. the best Fish demo I have seen.

[@cstephan7]

Everything that comes through Mr. Dabbler's channel is gold :)

[@lifehomeandmylinuxjourneys6789]

I took a break today while eating lunch & watched your video. Want to guess what I was eating? Mike you do great work. The Linux community is served well by you. Thanks Brother!

[@edakimling133]

Oh man, you got me at "the thing about man pages is that some of them, you have got to have an IQ of 160 to read....well I don't". Man that was funny and so true! Man pages are awesome; I love the concept, they are important, but they are terse and long. While typing a command, to be able to get this nice concise list of attributes and add them on the fly - totally priceless. This is what a shell was meant to be and this is the reason more people will be less afraid to use it. Thanks for the video!

[@thingsiplay]

My nickname is "Tuni" and people make fun of it by calling me fish. Well. Its embarrassing, but aside from this is the fact that there is a fantastic shell named FISH. And I am liking it so far in the 2 hours after installation. Just in time before 2021 starts.

Man. I was bought at 2:00 :) Great content, thanks!

[@jessecrockett]

love that background. good to hear from you.

[@typingcat]

Eh. I decided to go ZSH. I had been using the default Bash on Arch, but Zsh on Manjaro, and even though I missed the auto completion, I was too lazy to change the shell, but recently, I decided to change it and tried multiple shells on Arch: fish, ZSH, nushell, etc. Fish showed the things I wanted out-of-the-box, but then I heard that it breaks things because it's not POSIX-compliant. There was an easy setup package for ZSH and once install it, it automatically enabled those things fish does, so I chose to use Zsh. The only difference was that in fish, the switch descriptions had two colours, but ZSH had only one colour.

[@veli86]

Really helpful video! Awesome content Mike, thanks!

[@matthewstott3493]

The thing I like about fish is it's out of the box defaults. With zsh I have to write these massive configurations or risk using OhMyZsh and end up with something insane with too many plugins and slow performance. Not so with fish which comes with most features out of the box and the OhMyFish is extremely lightweight. Actually there are far fewer addons for Fish. When you run shell scripts they will likely use their bang slash defined shell such as /bin/sh (usually dash) or /bin/zsh or /bin/bash. No problem. Alternatively you can just start fish from within bash or zsh or whatever. Day to day interactive use, fish kicks some serious booty. Scripting in fish is radically different and if you are managing servers, etc. you'll likely never use it for that. You'll use it for custom functions and the like.

[@Zuschauer19]

Thanks for the helpful video. Keep up the good work.

[@insidetrip101]

I don't use fish, but I never understood why people didn't want to use fish because "its not posix compliant." I mean its one thing to symlink /bin/sh to fish, yeah that would be fucking dumb. But just using fish as your interactive shell isn't going to hinder your ability to run posix scripts in 99% of cases. I suppose that there may be some weird instances with environment variables and the like, but you can usually just call bash or whatever shell you want, set the variables in the call and then tell the shell what script to execute.

[@linuxdabbler]

@insidetrip101. Agreed.

[@Psittacus_erithacus]

100% this. Some folks just want an excuse to feel superior and/or avoid dealing with something new. The vast majority of the time "It isn't posix compliant" is just a lazy way of dismissing fish without much thought or any experimentation. I'm not saying there aren't valid reasons not to use fish. There are plenty. Heck that reason can be as simple as "I'm happy with zsh" or whatever but lazy complaints about posix compliance are just silly.

[@henninb]

I like fish, the features are great. The problem I have is it is not posix compliant.

[@ashwin372]

Really funny! Subscribed!

[@df-hh7yd]

Handy shortcut: ctrl+l is the shortcut for 'clear'. :)

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

HaHaHa more like 360 IQ to understand Man Pages... Man pages a the biggest problem for me... Lol So in bash scripts you call ( #!//bin/bash )... In fish you do what? to use bash scripts in Fish? Or what about writing bash scripts in Fish? Guess I'm going to have to watch the video again... Lol Great video! LLAP

[@linuxdabbler]

@Bruce Scott. You don't do anything special to run/write bash scripts in fish. The #!/bin/bash at the top of the script does all of the for you.

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

@@linuxdabbler Ok! Thank you... I just missed something in the video and it was my first cup of coffee... Lol Thanks for the reply... :-) LLAP

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

@@linuxdabbler Also I have ZSH installed with the plugins that does all of that already so I will stay with it for now... :-) I think fish is neat I have tried it a long time ago. So for now I will stay where I'm at... :-D LLAP

[@miyolinux]

To fish or not to fish; there is no quesiton...

[@linuxdabbler]

For me, there is more than one layer to this comment... Lol

[@miyolinux]

@@linuxdabbler ;)

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

HaHaHaHa! What are you fishing for? :-D LLAP

[@miyolinux]

@@BrucesWorldofStuff Q: What are you fishing for? A: Yes LOLOLOL!!!

[@linuxdabbler]

When I get to go... It's usually bass, brim, or crappie.... Sometimes catfish.