fish_mac_installation_guide.md

Installing fish Mac

brew install fish https://fishshell.com

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Fallback

• To fall back to another shell for something, just type zsh or bash.
• It will temporarily change the shell until you restart your terminal.
You can also type fish again to go back to fish.

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Make fish the default

1. check the fish path with which fish. In the examples below it was located at: /opt/homebrew/bin/fish
2. On older Macs these paths might differ.
3. Add fish to the know shells:
sudo sh -c 'echo /opt/homebrew/bin/fish >> /etc/shells’
4. Restart your terminal
5. Set fish as the default shell:
chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish
6. Restart your terminal and check if it launched with fish or not
7. Add brew binaries in fish path:
set -U fish_user_paths /opt/homebrew/bin $fish_user_paths

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Remove welcome text

Add the following to the end of ~/.config/fish/config.fish

set -g fish_greeting

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Set up your shell to use Starship

Add the following to the end of ~/.config/fish/config.fish

starship init fish | source

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