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Linux.com: CLI Magic: Enhancing the Shell with fish

“The Friendly Interactive Shell (fish) is an alternative command
line that is designed to be easy to learn and use. fish turns on by
default options that are available in shells such as Bash or tcsh
and develops them far beyond other shells. The result is a command
line that can go a long way toward curing the phobia that many
GNU/Linux users nurse from their experience with the DOS command
line.

“The fish shell has far too many features to discuss all of them
in detail. The four that users are most likely to encounter first
and appreciate most are the browser help, advanced syntax
highlighting, tab completion, and command history…”

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