Fish Shell

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell

Installation

macOS:

brew install fish

It’s immediately runnable after installation:

fish

Making it a default

See where Fish is installed (it might be different between macOS versions)

which fish
/opt/homebrew/bin/fish

echo /opt/homebrew/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish

Customization

Fish is a shell that is much better equipped by default compared to other shells.

Start with an awesome list

jorgebucaran/awsm.fish: A curation of prompts, plugins & other Fish treasures 🐚💎 https://github.com/jorgebucaran/awsm.fish

Greeting

Add to ~/.config/config.fish:

# Disable the fish greeting message
set fish_greeting

Brew

# Brew
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

Plugin management with Fisher

Fisher seems to be the most popular plugin manager for Fish

brew install fisher

Prompt customization

Tide is an extensive prompt customization plugin.

It expects a couple of dependencies to be installed first:

• Nerd Fonts — brew install font-hack-nerd-font

fisher install IlanCosman/tide@v6

Plugins

fzf fuzzy-search plugin

fisher install patrickf1/fzf.fish

z utility plugin

fisher install jethrokuan/z

SDKman plugin

fisher install reitzig/sdkman-for-fish@v2.1.0