Friendly interactive shell
From Freepedia
fish is a UNIX command shell. Its name is an acronym for friendly interactive shell. The latest version, 1.16.1, was released on October 25, 2005.
fish highlights
fish focuses on interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design goal of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in a way that is easy to discover, remember, and use. fish features a user-friendly and powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of every completion, tab-completion of strings with wildcards, and many completions for specific commands. It also features an extensive and discoverable help system. A special help command gives access to all the fish documentation in your preferred Web browser.
Features
- Advanced tab completion
- Syntax highlighting with extensive error checking
- Support for the X clipboard
- Smart terminal handling based on terminfo
- Searchable history
