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[fish](http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/) - the friendly interactive shell
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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](http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/html/design.html).
## Quick Start
fish generally works like other shells, like bash or zsh. A few important differences are documented at <http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/faq.html>
Detailed user documentation is available by running `help` within fish, and also at <http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/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.
### 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 libncursesw5-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.
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