I'm using iTerm on my Mac and I have a .bash_profile that I have been comfortably using. I recently got to know about fish bash and I installed it on my Mac and all of a sudden my .bash_profile is not being sourced. Any ideas as to why I could not see it?
How could I instruct my iTerm and fish to source my .bach_profile like it was doing before without fish?
Best Answer
Fish has exactly one user controlled config file which is named $HOME/.config/fish/config.fish by default. Fish also has an export command for compatibility with bash/zsh/sh but it just a thin wrapper around the fish form:
As for bash aliases you have two choices: turn them into abbreviations (see the "abbr" command) or functions. In fish you can define a function with its "alias" command but that simply turns
into
As Glenn Jackman pointed "fish is not bash". It is not an improved bash. Switching to fish isn't hard but does require a little effort. I made the switch 13 months ago and think it is worth the effort.