Awesome fish

A curated list of the most fabulous packages, prompts, and resources for the friendly interactive shell.

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What's in the menu?

Package managers

• Fisher - Minimal, fast and reliable package manager.
• Fundle - config.fish-based package manager inspired by vundle.
• Oh My Fish! - Shell configuration framework and package manager all-in-one.

Shell prompts

• Pure - Port of sindresorhus/pure prompt.
• Mono - No bells or whistles, minimal shell prompt.
• Metro - Git-aware, space-conscious, powerline prompt.
• Bobthefish - Robust, git-aware, powerline prompt.

Commands, utilities, functions

• enhancd - A next-generation cd command with your interactive filter
• z - Pure-fish rupa/z-like directory jumping.
• fzf - Improved key bindings for junegunn/fzf.
• bax - Run bash scripts, replaying environment changes in fish (see also bass).
• done - Automatically receive notifications when a long process finishes.
• mock - Quick and powerful function mocks.
• spark - Pure-fish sparkline generator: ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell.
• gitnow - A collection of utility functions set to speed up your git workflow.
• pisces - Autoclose parentheses, braces, quotes and other paired symbols in the command-line.
• getopts - CLI options parser; alternative to the argparse fish builtin.
• git-util - Git utility functions to query the status of a repository.
• fishtape - TAP-based test runner for fish scripts.
• ssh-agent - Utility functions to start your ssh agent.
• bang-bang - Bash-like history substitution.
• virtualfish - Virtualenv wrapper.
• apple-touchbar - Customize your Touch Bar in iTerm2.
• acomagu/fish-async-prompt - Make your prompt asynchronous to increase it reactivity.
• jorgebucaran/nvm - Pure-fish Node.js version manager.
• fabioantunes/nvm - nvm wrapper with completions (see also brigand/fast-nvm).
• jbonjean/re-search - More readline (or bash) like incremental history search.

Articles, tutorials, guides

• The fish cookbook (by @jorgebucaran)
• The fish shell is awesome (by @jvns)
• Why you should give fish a chance (by @jukben)
• A user introduction to the fish shell (by @flaviocopes)
• Came for the colors, stayed for the sane scripting! (by @mvolkmann)

Stay in the loop

• r/fishshell
• Gitter Channel
• StackOverflow #fish

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