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Install fish shell on macOS Mojave with brew

Installing Fish shell on MacOS (Intel and M1) using brew

Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line (like bash or zsh). This is how you can instal Fish on MacOS and make your default shell.

Note that you need the https://brew.sh/ package manager installed on your machine.

Install Fish

brew install fish

More info: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#tut_path

Check the path

Check the fish path with which fish . In the examples below it was located at: /opt/homebrew/bin/fish On older Macs default path is /usr/local/bin/fish, replace accordingly in the instruction below.

Make fish the default

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

Optionnal Configurations

Auto Completions

To collect command completions for all commands run:

fish_update_completions

Edit config.sh

I edited the ~/.config/fish/config.fish to have my terminal in english

set -x LANG en_US.UTF-8

Configure your shell

You can configure your shell by launching the web interface, run:

fish_config

Related documentation

Install Oh-my-fish

Install fisher

brew install fisher
fisher update
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