Drop Bash for fish shell to get beautiful defaults

The fish-themed “friendly interactive shell” creates a more enjoyable experience on the command line.

Change the default command line interpreter, Bash, in favor of fish, which proudly markets itself as “a command line shell for the ’90s.”

Fish shell is a modern command-line interface with auto-suggestions, tab completion, and syntax highlighting (among other features).

Be warned: fish is not like Bash.

There are helpful strategies for converting .bashrc and .bash_profile files into fish configuration, but it’s more than I will cover in this article. So, while I’ve grown to love fish, I recommend taking the interactive tutorial for a spin to see if you like it.

Use chsh to set it as your default shell

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