Fish Shell Setup OS X

Terminal Setup for OS X with Fish Shell, Fisher, Powerline Fonts and iTerm2.

Quick Install

Can't wait to run the fish shell? You can run the install.sh to install the Fish Shell, Fisher, Powerline Fonts and iTerm2.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ellerbrock/fish-shell-setup-osx/master/install.sh | bash

iTerm2

• Download and Install iTerm2 - a better Terminal for OS X.
• iTerm2 Color Schemas - Color Themes for iTerm2

Powerline Fonts

• https://github.com/powerline/fonts
• https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts

brew install fontconfig
cp /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.bak /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf

git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
./fonts/install.sh

Fish Shell

Fish Shell Installation (latest): brew install fish --HEAD

add the shell to the system know shells: echo /usr/local/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells

make fish your default shell: chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish

The Fish Shell configuration folder is located under: ~/.config/fish/

The main configuration file is: ~/.config/fish/config.fish, i source here 2 files.

source ~/.fish_aliases
source ~/.fish_variables

create a file ~/.fish_variables to source your variables:

# Setup your Github Token
set --export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN "01010101010101010101010101"

# add /usr/local/sbin to your PATH Variable
set --export PATH /usr/local/sbin $PATH

create a file ~/.fish_aliases to source your aliases:

alias l "ls -alF"
alias .. "cd .."
alias sshserver "ssh user@server.dev"
alias updatedb "sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb"
alias myrsync "rsync -aihvP"

Fisher (A package manager for the fish shell)

GitHub Repository

Installation

curl https://git.io/fisher --create-dirs -sLo ~/.config/fish/functions/fisher.fish

• fisher update all
• fisher add jethrokuan/z autocompletion for most used directories
• fisher add edc/bass for better bash compatibility
• fisher add Markcial/cprintf printf with colours
• brew install fzf; fisher add jethrokuan/fzf fuzzing finder
• brew install grc; fisher add fisherman/grc colourizer for terminal apps

See the documentation for details.

Themes

A list with screenshots of available themes.

I like the Budspencer Theme, so lets install it.

Make sure sure you have install Fish in the latest Version (brew install fish --HEAD) to run the budspencer theme.

brew install --with-default-names gnu-sed install dependencies

fisher omf/theme-budspencer install the theme budspencer

Theme Setup:

set -U budspencer_nogreeting
set -U fish_key_bindings fish_vi_key_bindings

Tips & Tricks

fish_update_completions run this once in a while to make the fish prompt aware of available commands and parameters

Update Script

If you run this more often makes then you can put an alias to this file in your `~/.fish_aliases we talked about above.

#!/usr/bin/env fish

echo 'start updating ...'

echo 'updating homebrew'
brew update
brew upgrade
brew cleanup

echo 'updating fish shell'
fisher up
fish_update_completions

echo 'updating npm'
npm update -g

echo 'checking Apple Updates'
/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -ia

exit 0

iTerm default screen

I use the terminal a lot and one windows is just not enought for me. You can setup your default window in iTerm2 like you want, mine looks like this:

One big windows on the left for coding or more detailed stuff and two split windows on the right to quickly fire some commands.

To Setup your window like you prefare just right click in the iTerms windows and say "Split Pane Vertically or Horizontally" to your needs. When you like it go to "Window -> Save Window Arrangment". For the last step go to "Preferences -> Arrangment" and set it to default. Next time you open iTerms it starts with your prefared awesome window setup.

Aliases and Exports

Aliases

alias rmi "rm -i"

# This is equivalent to entering the following function:

function rmi
    rm -i $argv
end

funcsave

http://fishshell.com/docs/current/commands.html#alias

Exports

set -xU APIKEY "SEC112233"

x == export U == universal - meaning that you can access the Variable from other sessions or terminals as well.

set --export PATH /usr/local/sbin $PATH another way to export

More details can be found here:

• http://fishshell.com/docs/2.2/commands.html#set
• http://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#tut_exports

Fun Stuff

• ASCII Font Generator
• 20 Funny Terminal Commands
• Open Source Badge

Other useful Resources

• Awesome fish - A curated list of awesome tools, prompts and other cool nuggets for the amazing fish-shell.
• Fish Shell Cookbook - Tips and recipes for fish, from shell to plate.
• Awesome OS X Command Line - Use your OS X terminal shell to do awesome things.

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