.TH "fish" 1 "Sun Jan 8 2012" "Version 1.23.1" "fish" \" -*- nroff -*-
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.SH NAME
fish \- fish - the friendly interactive shell 
.SH "fish - the friendly interactive shell"
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.SS "Synopsis"
fish [-h] [-v] [-c command] [FILE [ARGUMENTS\&.\&.\&.]]
.SS "Description"
A commandline 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\&.
.PP
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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-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-h\fP or \fC--help\fP display help and exit
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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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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\&.