Fish (Unix shell) (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Fish (Unix shell)" in English language version.

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arstechnica.com (Global: 473^rd place; English: 338^th place)

Paul, Ryan (19 December 2005). "An in-depth look at fish: the friendly interactive shell". Ars Technica. Retrieved 10 March 2015. the Posix syntax has several missing or badly implemented features, including variable scoping, arrays, and functions. For this reason, fish strays from the Posix syntax in several important places.

fishshell.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust". fishshell.com. 17 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
"fish 4.0.0 (released February 27, 2025)". fishshell.com. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
"Fish Shell Rust Port". fishshell.com. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
"License". fishshell.com. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
"Fish docs: design". fishshell.com. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
"Writing your own completions". fishshell.com. Archived from the original on 31 August 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
"fish_config – start the web-based configuration interface". fishshell.com. Retrieved 10 November 2025.

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"fish shell team members". GitHub.com. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
"Release 4.8.1". 13 July 2026. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
"fish-shell/fish-shell: Commits from 2005-04-07 to 2006-12-31". GitHub. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
dag (16 May 2013). "RFC: Add binding to expand/evaluate tokens on commandline". GitHub. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
Nordal, Andreas (11 July 2013). "printf does not support \e". fish issues. Retrieved 24 March 2016.

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"CLI Magic: Enhancing the shell with fish". Linux.com. 13 November 2006. Retrieved 10 November 2025.

lwn.net (Global: 4,372^nd place; English: 3,269^th place)

Liljencrantz, Axel (17 May 2005). "Fish – A user-friendly shell". Linux Weekly News. Retrieved 24 March 2010.

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"Writing your own completions". fishshell.com. Archived from the original on 31 August 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2025.

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"Bash Pitfalls". mywiki.wooledge.org. Retrieved 10 July 2016. This page shows common errors that Bash programmers make. (...) You will save yourself from many of these pitfalls if you simply always use quotes and never use word splitting for any reason! Word splitting is a broken legacy misfeature inherited from the Bourne shell that's stuck on by default if you don't quote expansions. The vast majority of pitfalls are in some way related to unquoted expansions, and the ensuing word splitting and globbing that result.