/usr/bin/fish --help — Chainguard OS Manuals

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Options (15)

Option	Description	Source
`-c, --command` COMMAND	Evaluate the specified commands instead of reading from the commandline.	man
`-C, --init-command` COMMANDS	Evaluate specified commands after reading the configuration but before executing command specified by -c or reading interactive input.	man
`-d, --debug` DEBUG_CATEGORIES	Enables debug output and specify a pattern for matching debug categories.	man
`-o, --debug-output` DEBUG_FILE	Specifies a file path to receive the debug output, including categories and fish_trace <#envvar-fish_trace>.	man
`-i, --interactive`	The shell is interactive.	man
`-l, --login`	Act as if invoked as a login shell.	man
`-N, --no-config`	Do not read configuration files.	man
`-n, --no-execute`	Do not execute any commands, only perform syntax checking.	man
`-p, --profile` PROFILE_FILE	when fish exits, output timing information on all executed commands to the specified file.	man
`--profile-startup` PROFILE_FILE	Will write timing for fish startup to specified file.	man
`-P, --private`	Enables private mode <#private-mode>: fish will not access old or store new history.	man
`--print-rusage-self`	When fish exits, output stats from getrusage.	man
`--print-debug-categories`	Print all debug categories, and then exit.	man
`-v, --version`	Print version and exit.	man
`-f, --features` FEATURES	Enables one or more comma-separated feature flags <#featureflags>.	man

Examples (6) from the manual page, untested

fish
To just start fish:
fish /path/to/script.fish
To run a file with fish:
fish -c 'echo Hi there!'
To run some commands with fish:
> fish -c 'printf %s\n $argv' "first line" "second line"
You can also pass arguments to those commands:
fish --init-cmd "source otherfile" script.fish
To run a script, except read this other file first:
fish --profile-startup /tmp/start.prof -ic exit
To profile <#profiling> fish's startup and find what takes the most time in your configuration:

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