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The "friendly interactive shell": autosuggestions, syntax highlighting and sane completions that work out of the box, with no configuration required. Recently rewritten from C++ to Rust entirely in the open.

StatusActive
Categorysystem
LicenseGPL-2.0-only
Websitehttps://fishshell.com/

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Mirror redundancy5 out of 5 (5/5)
Documentation3 out of 5 (3/5)
Reproducibility2 out of 5 (2/5)
License5 out of 5 (5/5)
Metadata5 out of 5 (5/5)

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ChecksumsSHA256
Reproducible buildNo
HistoryStarted in 2005 as a user-friendly command shell with better interactive defaults.
Versions4.x
Maintainersfish-shell contributors
Last verified2026-07-05

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SHA-256fish-4.8.0.pkg
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SHA-256fish-4.8.0.app.zip

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