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Introduction

This is the documentation for fish, the friendly interactive shell. fish is a user friendly commandline shell intended mostly for interactive use. A shell is a program used to execute other programs. For the latest information on fish, please visit the fish homepage.

Syntax overview

Shells like fish are used by giving them commands. Every fish command follows the same simple syntax.

A command is executed by writing the name of the command followed by any arguments.

Example:

echo hello world

This calls the echo command. echo is a command which will write its arguments to the screen. In the example above, the output will be 'hello world'