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Finally, a command line shell for the 90s  


fish is a smart and user-friendly command line  shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.  




Works Out of the Box


A git clone followed by the completions for 'git checkout --track origin/', showing the origin's remote branches fish will delight you with features like tab completions and syntax highlighting that just work. It will make you exclaim "Of course fish does that!".  

Sensible Scripting


A demonstration of a switch/case tree that detects the OS fish is fully scriptable, and its syntax is simple, clean, and consistent.  You'll never write esac again.  

Reads Your Mind


fish shows suggestions based on files, completions and your history. In this case it offers to turn 'ssh -' into 'ssh -l demo SomeLongHost@SomeLongDomainIAlwaysMisspell.com', and you can accept it with right arrow or control-F fish suggests commands as you type based on history and completions, just like a web browser.  Watch out, Netscape Navigator 4.0!  

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