- <a href="index.html#toc">Table of contents</a> - <a href="index.html#introduction">Introduction</a> - <a href="index.html#syntax">Syntax overview</a> - <a href="index.html#help">Help</a> - <a href="index.html#completion">Tab completion</a> - <a href="index.

html#expand">Parameter expansion (Globbing)</a> - <a href="index.html#variables">Environment variables</a> - <a href="index.html#builtin-overview">Builtins</a> - <a href="index.html#editor">Command Line editor</a> - <a href="index.html#job-control">Running multiple programs</a> - <a href="index.html#initialization">Initialization files</a> - <a href="index.html#other">Other features</a> - <a href="index.html#issues">Common issues with fish</a> - <a href="index.html#i18n">Translating fish to other languages</a> - <a href="index.html#todo">Missing features and bugs</a> - <a href="commands.html" id="toc-commands">Commands, functions and builtins bun dled with fish</a> - <a href="commands.html#alias">alias - create a function</a> - <a href="commands.html#and">and - conditionally execute a command</a> - <a href="commands.html#begin">begin - start a new block of code</a> - <a href="commands.html#bg">bg - send to background</a> - <a href="commands.html#bind">bind - handle fish key bindings</a> - <a href="commands.html#block">block - temporarily block delivery of events</ a> - <a href="commands.html#break">break - stop the innermost currently evaluated loop</a> - <a href="commands.html#breakpoint">breakpoint - Launch debug mode</a> - <a href="commands.html#builtin">builtin - run a builtin command</a> - <a href="commands.html#case">case - conditionally execute a block of command s</a> - <a href="commands.html#cd">cd - change directory</a> - <a href="commands.html#command">command - run a program</a> - <a href="commands.html#commandline">commandline - set or get the current com mandline buffer</a> - <a href="commands.html#complete">complete - edit command specific tab-comple tions.</a> - <a href="commands.html#contains">contains - test if a word is present in a l ist</a> - <a href="commands.html#continue">continue - skip the rest of the current lap of the innermost currently evaluated loop</a> - <a href="commands.html#count">count - count the number of elements of an arr ay</a> - <a href="commands.html#dirh">dirh - print directory history</a> - <a href="commands.html#dirs">dirs - print directory stack</a> - <a href="commands.html#echo">echo - display a line of text</a> - <a href="commands.html#else">else - execute command if a condition is not me t</a> - <a href="commands.html#emit">emit - Emit a generic event</a> - <a href="commands.html#end">end - end a block of commands.</a> - <a href="commands.html#eval">eval - evaluate the specified commands</a> - <a href="commands.html#exec">exec - execute command in current process</a> - <a href="commands.html#exit">exit - exit the shell.</a> - <a href="commands.html#fg">fg - send job to foreground</a> - <a href="commands.html#fish">fish - the friendly interactive shell</a> - <a href="commands.html#fish_config">fish_config - Start up the web-based con figuration interface</a> - <a href="commands.html#fish_indent">fish_indent - indenter and prettifier</a > - <a href="commands.html#fish_pager">fish_pager - internal command used by fis h</a>

- <a href="commands.html#fish_prompt">fish_prompt - define the appearance of t he command line prompt</a> - <a href="commands.html#fish_right_prompt">fish_right_prompt - define the app earance of the right-side command line prompt</a> - <a href="commands.html#fish_update_completions">fish_update_completions - Up date man-page completions</a> - <a href="commands.html#fishd">fishd - universal variable daemon</a> - <a href="commands.html#for">for - perform a set of commands multiple times.< /a> - <a href="commands.html#funced">funced - edit a function interactively</a> - <a href="commands.html#funcsave">funcsave - save the definition of a functio n to the users autoload directory</a> - <a href="commands.html#function">function - create a function</a> - <a href="commands.html#functions">functions - print or erase functions</a> - <a href="commands.html#help">help - display fish documentation</a> - <a href="commands.html#history">history - Show and manipulate user's command history </a> - <a href="commands.html#if">if - conditionally execute a command</a> - <a href="commands.html#isatty">isatty - test if the specified file descripto r is a tty</a> - <a href="commands.html#jobs">jobs - print currently running jobs</a> - <a href="commands.html#math">math - Perform mathematics calculations</a> - <a href="commands.html#mimedb">mimedb - lookup file information via the mime database</a> - <a href="commands.html#nextd">nextd - move forward through directory history </a> - <a href="commands.html#not">not - negate the exit status of a job</a> - <a href="commands.html#open">open - open file in its default application</a> - <a href="commands.html#or">or - conditionally execute a command</a> - <a href="commands.html#popd">popd - move through directory stack</a> - <a href="commands.html#prevd">prevd - move backward through directory histor y</a> - <a href="commands.html#psub">psub - perform process substitution</a> - <a href="commands.html#pushd">pushd - push directory to directory stack</a> - <a href="commands.html#pwd">pwd - returns the current directory</a> - <a href="commands.html#random">random - generate random number</a> - <a href="commands.html#read">read - read line of input into variables</a> - <a href="commands.html#return">return - stop the innermost currently evaluat ed function</a> - <a href="commands.html#set">set - handle environment variables.</a> - <a href="commands.html#set_color">set_color - set the terminal color</a> - <a href="commands.html#source">. - evaluate contents of file.</a> - <a href="commands.html#status">status - query fish runtime information</a> - <a href="commands.html#switch">switch - conditionally execute a block of com mands</a> - <a href="commands.html#test">test - perform tests on files and text</a> - <a href="commands.html#trap">trap - perform an action when the shell receive s a signal</a> - <a href="commands.html#type">type - indicate how a name would be interpreted if used as a command name</a> - <a href="commands.html#ulimit">ulimit - set or get the shells resource usage limits</a> - <a href="commands.html#umask">umask - set or get the file-creation mask</a> - <a href="commands.html#vared">vared - interactively edit the value of an env ironment variable</a> - <a href="commands.html#while">while - perform a command multiple times</a> - <a href="design.html" id="toc-design">Design document</a> - <a href="design.html#design-overview">Overview</a> - <a href="design.html#ortho">The law of orthogonality</a> - <a href="design.html#sep">The law of responsiveness</a>

- <a href="design.html#conf">Configurability is the root of all evil</a> - <a href="design.html#user">The law of user focus</a> - <a href="design.html#disc">The law of discoverability</a> - <a href="license.html" id="toc-license">Licenses</a> - <a href="faq.html" id="toc-faq">Frequently asked questions</a> - <a href="faq.html#faq-cwd-symlink">Why does cd, $PWD and and various fish co mmands always resolve symlinked directories to their canonical path?</a> - <a href="faq.html#faq-cd-autocomplete">Why does the cd command autocompletio n list the subdirectories of my home directory as completions?</a> - <a href="faq.html#faq-cd-implicit">I accidentally entered a directory path a nd fish changed directory. What happened?</a> - <a href="faq.html#faq-open">The open command doesn't work.</a> - <a href="faq.html#faq-default">How do I make fish my default shell?</a> - <a href="faq.html#faq-titlebar">I'm seeing weird output before each prompt w hen using screen. What's wrong?</a> - <a href="faq.html#faq-greeting">How do I change the greeting message?</a> - <a href="faq.html#faq-history">Why doesn't history substitution ("!$" etc.) work?</a>