Installing Fish shell on MacOS (Intel and M1)

Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line (like bash or zsh). This is how you can instal Fish on MacOS and make your default shell.

Note that you need the https://brew.sh/ package manager.

You can also download the fish app from their website. I do recomand using brew because update are easier.

Install Fish

brew install fish

More info: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#tut_path

Check the path

Check the fish path with which fish . In the examples below it was located at: /opt/homebrew/bin/fish On older Macs default path is /usr/local/bin/fish, replace accordingly in the instruction below.

Make fish the default

1. check the fish path with which fish. In the examples below it was located at: /opt/homebrew/bin/fish. On older Macs these paths might differ.
2. Add fish to the know shells run the command: sudo sh -c 'echo /opt/homebrew/bin/fish >> /etc/shells'
3. Restart your terminal
4. Set fish as the default shell run the command: chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish
5. Restart your terminal and check if it launched with fish or not
6. Add brew binaries in fish path run the command: set -U fish_user_paths /opt/homebrew/bin $fish_user_paths

Optionnaly configure the shell (launch web interface)

fish_config

Config.sh

I also edited the ~/.config/fish/config.fish to have my terminal in english

set -x LANG en_US.UTF-8

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