Fish Shell

A shell focused on user-friendliness. Features autosuggestions, simple syntax, and useful functions, all without being a pain to configure

I personally use Fish as my shell whenever possible, as it’s just the most user-friendly experience I’ve found, and I’ve gotten pretty used to it.

Resources

• Official site

Tips and Tricks

Setting up an SSH Agent

To set up an SSH agent for GitHub authentication, I use this utility function. Hasn’t been updated for a good few years but it works like a charm.

Greeting ASCII art

I create a .banner in my home folder with ASCII art generated using [[ Calligraphy ]] and then my fish_greeting uses cat to display it whenever a terminal is opened. This way, big block letters clearly remind me which container I’ve just entered.