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Facts from Fish's own pages
- Colors
- fish supports 24-bit true color. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Command completion
- fish includes general-purpose completions and scripted completions for many programs, including man, make, mount, apt, rpm, and yum. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Command suggestions
- fish suggests commands as users type, based on command history, completions, and valid file paths. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Compatibility limitation
- fish may not be suitable as a login shell on systems that require a Bourne-compatible login shell and /etc/profile. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Downloads
- The official site lists installation routes for macOS, Linux distributions, BSD systems, Cygwin, Windows Subsystem for Linux, and MSYS2. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Intended users
- The tutorial describes fish as suitable for people seeking a more productive command line without learning many arcane syntax and configuration options. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Interactive features
- fish includes syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, tab completion, and navigable selection lists. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Product
- fish is a command-line shell focused on usability and interactive use. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Ready to use
- fish is designed to work immediately without extensive configuration. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Scripting
- fish supports adding functions on the fly and describes its syntax as easy to learn and use. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Scripting compatibility
- fish aims to make tasks from other shell languages possible, while sometimes relying on external commands. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Support
- The project lists Matrix, its mailing list, Unix & Linux Stack Exchange, and GitHub issues as help channels. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Web configuration
- Users can use a web page to set colors and view functions, variables, and history. · fishshell.com, 14 Nov 2026
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