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Everton Tenorio
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[FAST] Fish: A Modern Shell Boost for Linux

Today's Fast and Simple Tip is about fish (shell).

Fish (Friendly Interactive Shell) brings autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and sane defaults to your terminal—way beyond Bash. Install it on Linux with:

sudo apt install fish  # Debian/Ubuntu
# or
sudo dnf install fish  # Fedora
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Switch to it:

fish
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Check the built-in help:

help # Opens a web-based tutorial in your browser
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Bonus: Pair it with modern tools like exa or bat from this GitHub list for a slick setup. Quick, smart, done.

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