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Fisher: Setup a package manager for fish shell

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Fisher: Setup a package manager for fish shell
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Fisher is a package manager for the Fish shell, a popular alternative to the traditional Bash shell. Fisher is designed to make it easy to manage and install Fish shell plugins and themes, and it provides a convenient way to keep these tools up to date.

Installation

To install fisher run the below command in the terminal

curl -sL https://git.io/fisher | source && fisher install jorgebucaran/fisher

Quickstart

Install plugins

  • To install a new plugin from a GitHub repository you can use the install command

      fisher install <user_name>/<repo_name>
    
  • To install plugins from local directories

      fisher install ~/path/to/plugin
    

List plugins

To view a list of the installed plugins you can use the list command

fisher list

Update plugins

To update an installed fisher plugin you can use the update command

fisher update <user_name>/<repo_name>

Remove plugins

To remove installed plugins you can use the remove command

fisher remove <user_name>/<repo_name>

Visit Fisher git repository to see the documentation: github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher

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