Welcome back to Linux.Ars! We have some good stuff for you this week. Axel Liljencrantz has written a helpful introduction to the Friendly Interactive Shell (Fish), a unique and innovative command ...

Some see a lot of promise in the evolution of "fish" on Linux -- a shell with a some unusual behaviors. No, the title for this post is not a mistake. I’m not referring to the gill-bearing aquatic ...

If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh. There are quite a few shells on Linux system and more that can be ...

The interactive Unix shell fish can, from version 4.6.0, take prompt information directly from environment variables, display emoji in the terminal more broadly, and accept a pipe notation familiar ...

Once you’ve gained a solid understanding of Linux and mastered the various commands available, your next big win comes in the form of shell functions. Code wrapped in a function can be reused by your ...