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Fish is Like Bash With a Brain — Here’s How to Try it on Ubuntu
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Fish looks cool, but I decided to settle on ble.sh for compatibility reasons. This one deserves some attention too. For me the main motivation was history-based autocomplete.
that's a command line editor tho fish is a shell?
Blesh adds a lot of functionality that makes bash feel + act like a fancier neoshell, while keeping the same syntax. Also includes a pre-exec hook, which vanilla bash notably lacks.
Highly recommend.
Yes, but "command line editor" is a confusing term. For me it's "get features of a fancy shell in pure bash".