
It is recommended to read at least the "Syntax overview" section, since fish's syntax is different from many other shells.

Once installed, simply type fish to drop into the fish shell.ĭocumentation can be found by typing help from fish it will be opened in a web browser.

For the development version, install the fish-git AUR package. This means that even simple POSIX compliant scripts may require some significant adaptation or even full rewriting to run with fish.

Fish, the friendly interactive shell, is a commandline shell intended to be interactive and user-friendly.įish is intentionally not fully POSIX compliant, it aims at addressing POSIX inconsistencies (as perceived by the creators) with a simplified or a different syntax.
