.TH "fish" 1 "Sun Oct 4 2020" "Version 3.0.2" "fish" \" -*- nroff -*-
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\fBfish\fP - the friendly interactive shell
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.SS "Synopsis"
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\fBfish\fP [OPTIONS] [-c command] [FILE [ARGUMENTS\&.\&.\&.]]
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.SS "Description"
\fCfish\fP is a command-line shell written mainly with interactive use in mind\&. The full manual is available \fCin HTML\fP by using the \fChelp\fP command from inside fish\&.
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The following options are available:
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\fC-c\fP or \fC--command=COMMANDS\fP evaluate the specified commands instead of reading from the commandline
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\fC-C\fP or \fC--init-command=COMMANDS\fP evaluate the specified commands after reading the configuration, before running the command specified by \fC-c\fP or reading interactive input
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\fC-d\fP or \fC--debug-level=DEBUG_LEVEL\fP specify the verbosity level of fish\&. A higher number means higher verbosity\&. The default level is 1\&.
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\fC-i\fP or \fC--interactive\fP specify that fish is to run in interactive mode
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\fC-l\fP or \fC--login\fP specify that fish is to run as a login shell
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\fC-n\fP or \fC--no-execute\fP do not execute any commands, only perform syntax checking
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\fC-p\fP or \fC--profile=PROFILE_FILE\fP when fish exits, output timing information on all executed commands to the specified file
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\fC-v\fP or \fC--version\fP display version and exit
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\fC-D\fP or \fC--debug-stack-frames=DEBUG_LEVEL\fP specify how many stack frames to display when debug messages are written\&. The default is zero\&. A value of 3 or 4 is usually sufficient to gain insight into how a given debug call was reached but you can specify a value up to 128\&.
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\fC-f\fP or \fC--features=FEATURES\fP enables one or more feature flags (separated by a comma)\&. These are how fish stages changes that might break scripts\&.
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The fish exit status is generally the exit status of the last foreground command\&. If fish is exiting because of a parse error, the exit status is 127\&.