Fish Utility Functions

This repo contains a (rarely updated) collection of my custom fish helper funcs and dotfiles.

For my Bash snippets, functions, and reading list, see here:

• https://github.com/pirate/bash-utils
• https://fishshell.com/docs/current/fish_for_bash_users.html

For a huge list of all my favorite Linux/Unix/macOS commands and utilities, see here:

• ⭐️ https://docs.sweeting.me/s/system-monitoring-tools

Fish Plugins

Plugin Repositories

• ⭐️ https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher
• ⭐️ https://github.com/topics/fish-plugin
• https://github.com/jorgebucaran/awsm.fish
• https://github.com/xuxiaodong/awesome-shell
• https://github.com/withfig/fig

Favorite Plugins

• ⭐️ https://github.com/gazorby/fifc
• ⭐️ https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
• ⭐️ https://github.com/wting/autojump / https://github.com/jethrokuan/z
• https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish
• https://github.com/jorgebucaran/nvm.fish
• https://github.com/jorgebucaran/replay.fish / https://github.com/edc/bass
• https://github.com/jorgebucaran/autopair.fish / https://github.com/laughedelic/pisces
• https://github.com/decors/fish-colored-man / https://github.com/PatrickF1/colored_man_pages.fish
• https://github.com/ankitsumitg/docker-fish-completions / https://github.com/halostatue/fish-docker
• https://github.com/halostatue/fish-macos
• https://github.com/franciscolourenco/done
• https://github.com/halostatue/fish-utils-net
• https://github.com/jorgebucaran/getopts.fish

Older Plugin Repositories (Deprecated)

• https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish
• https://github.com/danhper/fundle
• https://github.com/IlanCosman/scuba
• https://github.com/xtendo-org/chips
• https://github.com/airhorns/hook

Issues with Fish

Problems that fish has that bash doesn’t have (I love fish as a shell, I just don’t think it’s good as a scripting language):

• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/159
• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1396
• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/206
• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2007
• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/510
• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/4907
• backgrounding fish functions does not exist: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/238
• so I had to make an entire job control system for fish that just calls out to bash: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2036#issuecomment-298495526 …

Fish Community

• https://www.reddit.com/r/fishshell/
• https://github.com/jorgebucaran/cookbook.fish
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fish
• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues