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David Adam c0989dce2d use mktemp(1) to generate temporary file names
Fix for CVE-2014-2906.

Closes a race condition in funced which would allow execution of
arbitrary code; closes a race condition in psub which would allow
alternation of the data stream.

Note that `psub -f` does not work (#1040); a fix should be committed
separately for ease of maintenance.
2014-04-27 12:26:21 +08:00
build_tools Update OS X make_pkg script to also produce fish.app 2013-10-05 17:06:22 -07:00
doc_src Check effective credentials of socket peers 2014-04-27 12:26:17 +08:00
etc Stomp exit status of initialization scripts so that fish starts out with $status 0 2013-04-09 23:48:03 -07:00
fish.xcodeproj Bump version to 2.1.0 2013-10-05 13:17:51 -07:00
osx Check effective credentials of socket peers 2014-04-27 12:26:17 +08:00
po remove trialing spaces #2 2010-09-18 10:18:26 +08:00
share use mktemp(1) to generate temporary file names 2014-04-27 12:26:21 +08:00
tests Initial work towards various IO cleanups with an eye to fixing https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/110 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: mark most scripts in build_tools as not for export 2013-08-11 23:13:38 +08:00
.gitignore Ignore executable files 2013-08-12 09:58:45 +03:00
autoload.cpp Make subcommands modify $status, and make builtin_set not modify status unless it fails 2013-01-31 15:57:08 -08:00
autoload.h forward-word should accept a word of an autosuggestion 2012-12-10 16:23:08 -08:00
builtin_commandline.cpp Make tok_last_type return an enum token_type instead of int 2013-09-30 13:57:36 -07:00
builtin_complete.cpp Break out COMPLETE_NO_CASE and COMPLETE_REPLACES_TOKEN into separate flags, in preparation for upcoming fuzzy completion work 2013-03-05 20:54:16 -08:00
builtin_jobs.cpp Fix indentation of switch statements 2012-11-19 00:31:03 -08:00
builtin_printf.cpp Merge pull request #915 from GlitchMr/fix-printf 2013-07-19 00:17:37 -07:00
builtin_set_color.cpp Fix set_color crash on 'ignore' and 'reset' 2013-09-21 15:15:06 -07:00
builtin_set.cpp print_variables should use ellipsis_char instead of literal ellipsis 2013-04-19 10:24:33 -07:00
builtin_test.cpp use wstat in test command to follow symbolic link 2013-08-25 15:54:06 -07:00
builtin_ulimit.cpp Fix indentation of switch statements 2012-11-19 00:31:03 -08:00
builtin.cpp Refactored builtin_echo with better argument parsing. 2013-09-22 08:53:12 +02:00
builtin.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
CHANGELOG Remove trailing whitespaces and change tabs to spaces 2012-11-18 11:23:22 +01:00
color.cpp First stab at builtin set_color. Moved set_color.cpp to builtin_set_color.cpp and taught fish about it. 2013-02-14 15:52:24 -08:00
color.h First stab at builtin set_color. Moved set_color.cpp to builtin_set_color.cpp and taught fish about it. 2013-02-14 15:52:24 -08:00
common.cpp Fix for crash when setting tmux pane title 2013-06-02 01:50:22 -07:00
common.h Formatting 2013-06-02 01:14:26 -07:00
complete.cpp Restore directories' tab completion without slash in command. 2013-10-01 08:29:40 +02:00
complete.h Fix a comment typo 2013-09-12 01:03:41 -07:00
config.guess Update to latest config.sub and config.guess versions 2013-09-22 15:57:52 +08:00
config.sub Update to latest config.sub and config.guess versions 2013-09-22 15:57:52 +08:00
configure.ac Check effective credentials of socket peers 2014-04-27 12:26:17 +08:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Rename STYLEGUIDE.md to CONTRIBUTING.md, so GitHub would notice it. 2013-07-28 20:49:38 +02:00
create_wajig_completions.py Add the file that generated the wajig completions to the tree. This should not be installed but it should be included with the tarball. The file was written by Reuben Thomas. 2006-11-04 00:26:45 +10:00
Doxyfile remove trialing spaces #2 2010-09-18 10:18:26 +08:00
Doxyfile.help Made autoconf stop generating Doxyfile.help in preparation for Xcode documentation build phase 2012-12-26 23:48:11 -08:00
Doxyfile.user remove trialing spaces #2 2010-09-18 10:18:26 +08:00
env_universal_common.cpp Large set of changes to how PATH is handled. Changed fish to no longer modify PATH in share/config.fish. Introduced variable fish_user_paths, and a glue function __fish_reconstruct_path that splices together PATH with fish_user_paths. Changed fish to no longer validate changes to PATH unless the paths are new (i.e. don't recheck what's already there). Modified certain sets to store const wchar_t instead of wcstring to save a few allocations. 2013-02-19 18:05:20 -08:00
env_universal_common.h Large set of changes to how PATH is handled. Changed fish to no longer modify PATH in share/config.fish. Introduced variable fish_user_paths, and a glue function __fish_reconstruct_path that splices together PATH with fish_user_paths. Changed fish to no longer validate changes to PATH unless the paths are new (i.e. don't recheck what's already there). Modified certain sets to store const wchar_t instead of wcstring to save a few allocations. 2013-02-19 18:05:20 -08:00
env_universal.cpp Check effective credentials of socket peers 2014-04-27 12:26:17 +08:00
env_universal.h Clean up env_var_table_t. Switch from storing var_uni_entry_t* to var_uni_entry_t. Various other cleanups. 2013-02-11 23:16:50 -08:00
env.cpp Stop insisting on trying to add /usr/bin and /bin to $PATH. 2013-08-27 18:23:33 -07:00
env.h Rely on $PWD instead of getcwd() more often 2013-04-27 00:45:38 -07:00
event.cpp Reduce compiled code size a bit 2013-04-13 02:00:31 -07:00
event.h Formatting and style updates 2013-05-05 02:33:17 -07:00
exec.cpp Fix a C++11 compile error with clang. 2013-08-25 00:45:43 -07:00
exec.h Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
expand.cpp Improve dangerous/undefined PID expansion behavior 2013-09-22 19:54:37 +08:00
expand.h Initial abbreviation work. Tests currently fail. 2013-07-19 12:41:34 -07:00
fallback.cpp Check effective credentials of socket peers 2014-04-27 12:26:17 +08:00
fallback.h Check effective credentials of socket peers 2014-04-27 12:26:17 +08:00
fish_indent.cpp Generate version numbers dynamically 2013-08-11 23:13:38 +08:00
fish_pager.cpp Fix for infinite loop in cycle_competions, and potential issue in 2013-09-10 21:13:47 -07:00
fish_tests.cpp Set of changes to improve detection of escape sequences for prompt width 2013-09-29 02:48:35 -07:00
fish.cpp Support term256 in config.fish. Fixes #1022. 2013-09-30 14:45:12 +02:00
fish.spec.in Remove xsel from the build 2013-03-30 00:13:44 -07:00
fishd.cpp Check effective credentials of socket peers 2014-04-27 12:26:17 +08:00
function.cpp reference'ize event.cpp/h 2012-12-20 16:13:14 +01:00
function.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
highlight.cpp Highlight incorrect use of command or exec 2013-07-27 14:57:16 +02:00
highlight.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
history.cpp Remove duplicates from history in fish_config 2013-09-05 13:49:18 -07:00
history.h Large set of changes to improve history atomicity on filesystems that do not support locking 2013-04-27 15:21:14 -07:00
input_common.cpp Formatting and style updates 2013-05-05 02:33:17 -07:00
input_common.h Use the new input_common_add_callback mechanism to not execute callbacks while signals are blocked. Should fix https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/608 2013-04-03 17:26:02 -07:00
input.cpp add support for downcase-word, upcase-word and capitalise-word 2013-09-09 18:46:16 +02:00
input.h add support for downcase-word, upcase-word and capitalise-word 2013-09-09 18:46:16 +02:00
install-sh Update to newer install-sh version 2013-09-22 17:51:48 +08:00
intern.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
intern.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
io.cpp Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
io.h Fix the build on OS X Mavericks 2013-08-21 14:41:12 -07:00
iothread.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
iothread.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
key_reader.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
kill.cpp Fix the build (oops) 2013-03-29 18:05:01 -07:00
kill.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
lru.h Fix for build errors with g++ 4.0.1 2012-12-11 13:18:40 -08:00
Makefile.in New documentation UI, including tutorial. 2013-10-05 00:37:44 -07:00
mimedb.cpp Generate version numbers dynamically 2013-08-11 23:13:38 +08:00
mimedb.h Add header guards to the header files. 2005-10-05 01:11:39 +10:00
output.cpp Kill termio.h and sys/termios.h 2013-03-05 12:25:00 -08:00
output.h First stab at builtin set_color. Moved set_color.cpp to builtin_set_color.cpp and taught fish about it. 2013-02-14 15:52:24 -08:00
parse_util.cpp Fix for buffer overflows identified by libgmalloc 2013-10-16 01:02:15 -07:00
parse_util.h Make parse_util_locate_cmdsubst return the innermost command substitution instead of the outermost. 2013-07-17 01:35:30 -07:00
parser_keywords.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
parser_keywords.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
parser.cpp Better error messages for EDITOR=vim git... type commands. 2013-09-30 14:55:25 -07:00
parser.h Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
path.cpp Support implicit cd with appended /. 2013-10-01 08:25:13 +02:00
path.h Add a fancy new paths_are_equivalent function to test for equivalent 2013-08-27 18:26:22 -07:00
postfork.cpp Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
postfork.h Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
print_help.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
print_help.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
proc.cpp Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
proc.h Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
reader.cpp Make tok_last_type return an enum token_type instead of int 2013-09-30 13:57:36 -07:00
reader.h reader_replace_current_token can be made static 2013-09-21 16:27:37 -07:00
README.md document and enforce Autoconf 2.60 or greater 2013-09-06 10:41:58 +08:00
release_notes.html Release notes for fish 2.0 2013-05-15 01:02:55 -07:00
sanity.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
sanity.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
screen.cpp Set of changes to improve detection of escape sequences for prompt width 2013-09-29 02:48:35 -07:00
screen.h Set of changes to improve detection of escape sequences for prompt width 2013-09-29 02:48:35 -07:00
signal.cpp Fix for issue where history file would be read immediately on launch 2012-12-04 16:00:35 -08:00
signal.h Fix for issue where history file would be read immediately on launch 2012-12-04 16:00:35 -08:00
tokenizer.cpp Better error messages for EDITOR=vim git... type commands. 2013-09-30 14:55:25 -07:00
tokenizer.h Better error messages for EDITOR=vim git... type commands. 2013-09-30 14:55:25 -07:00
user_doc.head.html Fix to enable momentum scrolling on iOS in new documentation 2013-10-15 12:45:33 -07:00
util.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
util.h Hack around xdm's dumb assumption that the login shell is POSIX compliant so we no longer kill OpenSUSE 2013-01-04 13:09:01 -08:00
wgetopt.cpp Fix bad error message for certain options. 2013-08-26 21:10:19 -07:00
wgetopt.h Re-point some URLs at the fish homepage fishshell.com 2012-12-27 02:17:14 -08:00
wildcard.cpp Fix certain wildcard tab completions - 2013-09-11 02:33:44 -07:00
wildcard.h Support for fuzzy completions 2013-05-25 15:41:18 -07:00
wutil.cpp Use strerror in uClibc, which doesn't have sys_errlist 2013-05-25 13:42:16 -07:00
wutil.h Mark stdin as nonblocking if we get EWOULDBLOCK, and before handing it off to child processes when either starting them or moving them to the foreground. 2013-04-07 12:40:08 -07:00
xdgmime.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmime.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimealias.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimealias.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimeglob.cpp Fix indentation of switch statements 2012-11-19 00:31:03 -08:00
xdgmimeglob.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimeint.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimeint.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimemagic.cpp Fix warning about realloc in xdgmimemagic 2013-02-16 13:17:43 -08:00
xdgmimemagic.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimeparent.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimeparent.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00

fish - the friendly interactive shell

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family. fish includes features like syntax highlighting, autosuggest-as-you-type, and fancy tab completions that just work, with no configuration required.

For more on fish's design philosophy, see the design document.

Quick Start

fish generally works like other shells, like bash or zsh. A few important differences can be found at http://fishshell.com/tutorial.html by searching for magic phrase 'unlike other shells'.

Detailed user documentation is available by running help within fish, and also at http://fishshell.com/docs/2.0/index.html

Building

fish is written in a sane subset of C++98, with a few components from C++TR1. It builds successfully with g++ 4.2 or later, and with clang. It also will build as C++11.

fish can be built using autotools or Xcode. autoconf 2.60 or later is required.

fish requires gettext for translation support.

Autotools Build

autoconf
./configure
make [gmake on BSD]
sudo make install

Xcode Development Build

  • Build the base target in Xcode
  • Run the fish executable, for example, in DerivedData/fish/Build/Products/Debug/base/bin/fish

Xcode Build and Install

xcodebuild install
sudo ditto /tmp/fish.dst /

Help, it didn't build!

If fish reports that it could not find curses, try installing a curses development package and build again.

On Debian or Ubuntu you want:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

on RedHat, CentOS, or Amazon EC2:

sudo yum install ncurses-devel

Packages for Linux

Nightly builds for several Linux distros can be downloaded from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/siteshwar/

Switching to fish

If you wish to use fish as your default shell, use the following command:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish

chsh will prompt you for your password, and change your default shell.

To switch your default shell back, you can run:

chsh -s /bin/bash

Substitute /bin/bash with /bin/tcsh or /bin/zsh as appropriate.

Contact Us

Questions, comments, rants and raves can be posted to the official fish mailing list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users or join us on our IRC channel #fish at irc.oftc.net.

Found a bug? Have an awesome idea? Please open an issue on this github page.