<![CDATA[I tried to convince a few people at work to use fish instead of bash.]]>I tried to convince a few people at work to use fish instead of bash. I cannot begin to describe how much of a better shell fish is over older shells.

Unfortunately, was not successful in getting them to try it, even for a minute.

If you'd like to try:

sudo apt-get install fish
fish

Send me a message or post a reply if you do try it. To keep fish as your default shell, run this command:

chsh --shell $(which fish)

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I also was a csh, zsh, and bash user for over 30 years before I tried fish. My guess is I've been using fish for at least a decade now, and I would never go back.

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It is smarter about case-sensitive names than bash when you use tab completion.

It parses the man pages so it knows about parameters to all sorts of commands. Then it can help auto-complete them as you type commands.

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