Works Out of the Box

fish will delight you with features like tab completions and syntax highlighting that just work. It will make you exclaim "Of course fish does that!".

Sensible Scripting

fish is fully scriptable, and its syntax is simple, clean, and consistent. You'll never write esac again.

Reads Your Mind

fish suggests commands as you type based on history and completions, just like a web browser. Watch out, Netscape Navigator 4.0!

Abbreviations

Tired of writing many characters when few would do? Fish allows you to abbreviate!

Glorious VGA Color

fish supports 24 bit true color, the state of the art in terminal technology. Behold the monospaced rainbow.

Web Based Configuration

For those lucky few with a graphical computer, you can set your colors and view functions, variables, and history all from a web page. Or not, you can also stay in your comfy terminal and set them there.

Teach me to fish

Go fish

• macOS
• Linux
• BSD
• Windows
• Sources

Release History

Release Notes

• 4.2.1, released November 13, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.2.0, released November 10, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.1.2, released October 7, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.1.1, released September 30, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.1.0, released September 27, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.0.9, released September 27, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.0.8, released September 18, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.0.6, released September 12, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.0.2, released April 20, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.0.1, released March 13, 2025 (tarball)
• 4.0.0, released February 27, 2025 (tarball)
• 3.7.1, released March 19, 2024 (tarball)
• 3.7.0, released January 1, 2024 (tarball)
• 3.6.4, released December 5, 2023 (tarball)
• 3.6.3, released December 4, 2023 (tarball)
• 3.6.2, released December 4, 2023 (tarball)
• 3.6.1, released March 25, 2023 (tarball)
• 3.6.0, released January 7, 2023 (tarball)
• 3.5.1, released July 20, 2022 (tarball)
• 3.5.0, released June 16, 2022 (tarball)
• 3.4.1, released March 25, 2022 (tarball)
• 3.4.0, released March 12, 2022 (tarball)
• 3.3.1, released July 6, 2021 (tarball)
• 3.3.0, released June 28, 2021 (tarball)
• 3.2.2, released April 7, 2021 (tarball)
• 3.2.1, released March 18, 2021 (tarball)
• 3.2.0, released March 1, 2021 (tarball)
• 3.1.2, released April 29, 2020 (tarball)
• 3.1.1, released April 27, 2020 (tarball)

Development

Need Help?

• matrix channel for quick questions
• Official fish mailing list
• Unix & Linux Stackexchange for questions.
• GitHub issues page for when you find a bug or have an awesome idea!